Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)
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“Too many dots,” Miller said. “Not enough lines.”
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how so much of the human sense of aesthetics had been formed in a time when sleek objects cut through the air.
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“Anyone can kill a planet from orbit,” Holden replied. “You don’t even need bombs. Just push anvils out the airlock.
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The one called Mole turned around and started to walk to the elevator when his face disintegrated in a spray of pebble-shaped bits of armored glass and blood. His armored torso and the corridor bulkhead beside him bloomed in a hundred small detonations and puffs of smoke. His body jerked and swayed, attached to the floor by magnetic boots.
Saurabh Nanda
What a description!
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People always whispered when they were hiding. Wrapped in a space suit and surrounded by vacuum, Gomez could have been lighting fireworks inside his armor and no one would have heard it, but he whispered.
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It always surprised Miller how peaceful dead people looked. However godawful the circumstances, the slack calm that came at the end looked like sleep. It made him wonder if when his turn came, he’d actually feel that last relaxation.
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It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.
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Didn’t mean Miller was uncomfortable lying to the man.
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wasp stung Holden’s arm,
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Wasp?
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Holden said a silent prayer of thanks for bloated military budgets and pressed the brew button.
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The request interface for the port logs was ancient, uncomfortable, and subtly different from Eros to Ganymede to Pallas and on and on.
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Joy of govt built tech and UI
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They hadn’t seen a tree there in more than a century.
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Might soon become reality
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Holden took a long, deep breath, got up, and started unzipping his suit. “Yeah, okay. That’s just self-serving enough I believe it,” he said. “Let’s get settled in.”
Saurabh Nanda
What?! Seems too simplistic
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“Chicá perdída in ops been mixing a bunch of it to bhangra,” Diogo said, making a shifting dance move with his hips. “Hard-core, eh?”
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He has a track record of amateur press releases.”