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Foolproof is another weird word. Shouldn’t it be smartproof? It’s not like you’re going to breach and seize control of a ship attached to a space dock by tripping or forgetting to bring your weapon or something.

Amena is a convincing teen girl

Ratthi sighed, leaned against the wall and said, “So, you have a relationship with this transport.”

I was horrified. Humans are disgusting. “No!”

Ratthi made a little exasperated noise. “I didn’t mean a sexual relationship.”

Amena’s brow furrowed in confusion and curiosity. “Is that possible?”

“No!” I told her.

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"Planetary days" now? Not "cycles"?

suborn (verb)
/səˈbɔːn/

to persuade someone, for example by offering them money, to commit an illegal act, especially to tell lies in a court of law

apocryphal (adjective)
/əˈpɒk.rɪ.fəl/

An apocryphal story is probably not true although it is often told and believed by some people to have happened

Huh. I thought we weren't using the word "gun" in this world.

Took a while but something is happening!

I started the Murderbot TV series last night after checking that it won't spoil the rest of the series for me, and... Murderbot is quite different from how I imagined it to be. But now I can't stop reading it in the actor's voice and manners, argh!

I miss ART, too.

She explained, “In the creche, our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It’s imposed from the outside. So it’s possible to fight it. You should do the things you’re afraid of.”

Overse and Arada were a couple, [...] and they were best friends with Ratthi. Ratthi had an unrequited thing for Pin-Lee, but didn’t act stupid about it. Pin-Lee was exasperated a lot, [...] but it wasn’t about Ratthi. [...] Volescu admired Mensah to the point where he might have a crush on her. Pin-Lee did, too, but she and Bharadwaj flirted [...] Gurathin was the only loner [...]

Airborne: A Symposium

Metempsychosis: or, The Journey of the Soul

Freeforall

Death by Clamshell

85% of Death by Clamshell: "What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to pain a naked woman in distress, always of interest to a certain kind of man."

Bad Teeth

Impatient Griselda

33% of Patient Griselda

"This was very alarming, so Patient Griselda said yes, and the Duke scooped her up onto his... I'm sorry, we don't have a word for that, so the translation device is of no help. Onto his snack. Why are you all laughing? What do you think snacks do before they become snacks?"

The Dead Interview

My Evil Mother

Morte de Smudgie

Two Scorched Men

First Aid

Reading resumes in the new year. Shit. What were they doing before my reading break?

Adding "go to outer space and choke on vacuum" to my list of insults.

Daneel remained calm throughout—but, then, he could not do otherwise—and assured her that all human ships could dock with each other regardless of difference in size and make.

“Like human beings,” said Gladia, forcing a smile, but Daneel made no response to that.