Nemesis Games (The Expanse Book 5)

Half the population was below average intelligence.

We’re still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.”

You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.

The concrete replaces the forest. You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks.

We’re still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.”

atavistic

Losing everything should at least be dignified.

The trick, he said, is to have a simple plan that more or less can’t go wrong so that you always have something, and then stack your risks on that. Have another alternative that won’t work but maybe one time in a hundred, and if it happens, you look like a god. And then one that won’t work but one time in twenty, that if it lands you look like you’

Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked. Take the most beautiful person in the solar system, zoom in on them at the right magnification and they were an apocalyptic cratered landscape crawling with horrors. That’s what the Earth was. A shining jewel from space, up close a blasted landscape covered