Travis Bottcher

“Amos smiled an empty, friendly smile that meant he didn’t know or care what the others were talking about but he was willing to let them go on about it for a while.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls

“you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.’ ‘What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?’ ‘You ask a glass of water.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“What happened?" she asked.
"The landing pad blew up."
"Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?"
"No. No, they really don't.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Everything went great right up to the explosion.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian