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I really know her. I might be the only one who does.

He's a sad boy and I'm weak.

But then I saw him defend Ro—Freddy’s tutor-turned-girlfriend and Sadie’s best friend. He didn’t know the girl, didn’t care about anything other than stopping an asshole from hurting a defenseless person. After that, it became harder not to like him.

This guy's book either is gonna be the best ever or I'm gonna hate it but I very much doubt that

My dog is loyal to a fault, has protected her from the first day he met her.

A man with a pet is my fucking weakness

I love meburgers. I eat one every day.

This is sooo bittersweet

All critical bulkheads of his ship, including the fuel tanks, are made of xenonite. There’s nothing standing between his Taumoeba and his fuel. “Oh…God…”

Nooooo Rocky will die 😳😭

“Goodbye, friend Grace.”
I wave meekly. “Goodbye, friend Rocky.”

😭😭😭

“Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.” He points to the breeder tanks. “Check tanks!”

I need this lone to be in the movie 😂😂

I really want it to be worth it. It’s an alien freakin’ spaceship! I want to see the inside! But yeah. Got to save humanity and stuff. That’s the priority.

Not fair!!! Let my man get on an alien spaceships damn it!!

Modifying an alien life-form. What could possibly go wrong?

When would characters learn to NEVER ask THAT question 😭😭

“Yeah. Coma slurry. The ship fed it to me during the trip here. I have enough to last me almost four years.”
“Eat that.”
“It tastes bad.”
“Food experience not that important.”
“Why does Eridian food have thallium in it?”
“Healthy.”
“Thallium kills humans!”
“Then eat human food.”

Yeah I'd hate Slurry coma food too!!! I'm the most picky eater you could find.

Their DGSE has perfected a drug that causes retrograde amnesia that lasts for long periods of time. Not just hours or days, but weeks. They used it during various anti-terror operations. It can be handy for a suspect to forget he was ever interrogated.
The ending of chapter 23 is CRAZY!!!! holy shit Stratt’s ruthless

You abandoned a promising scientific career because people didn’t like a paper you wrote. You retreated to the safety of children who worship you for being the cool teacher. You don’t have a romantic partner in your life because that would mean you might suffer heartbreak. You avoid risk like the plague.

Omg stop being mean to this sweet man!!!

“It must be your decision,” said Yáo. “I will not have someone on my crew who is there against their will. You must come of your own volition. And if you refuse, we will bring in Ms. Cáceres and do our best to train her up. But I urge you to say yes. Billions of lives are on the line. Our lives matter little when compared against such tragedy.”

I'm crying.

“Save…Earth…Save…Erid…” he quavers. Then he slumps down.
“Rocky!” I grab his carapace without thinking. It’s like putting my hands on a burner. I jerk away. “Rocky…no…”
But he is motionless.

Nononono please

“Earth’s had five mass extinction events in the past. And humans are clever. We’ll pull through.”
“Naaaah,” he said. “We’re already stockpiling food. We’ve got a bunch of methane in the air to hold in the solar energy. It’ll be all right. As long as Hail Mary succeeds.”


I want just a lil bit of this guy's optimism

“Dr. Shapiro and I do not see it that way. We are enjoying very active sexual encounters.”
“Yeah, okay, I don’t need to know—”
“No need for condoms either. She is on birth control and we have both had extremely thorough medical examinations as part of the program.”
I typed on my computer, hoping he’d change the subject.
“It’s quite pleasurable.”

So im guessing this is why Ryland is on the mission and not them

“You are okay, question?”
“Yes!” I sob. “Yes, I’m okay. Thank you! Thank you thank you!”
“I am happy. You no die. Let’s save planets!”

I think this I my fav scene so far. I can't wait to watch it in the movie 😭

“Nonsense,” she said. “Humanity has been accidentally causing global warming for a century. Let’s see what we can do when we really set our minds to it.” ...
She made a shooing motion. “Get to work!”

I want to the confidence of this woman bcuz holy shit!!!

“That’s my estimate for when half the people currently alive will be dead. Nineteen years from now.”

So either the entire human race goes extinct or we sacrifice half for a chance that we might be able to find away out of this... and change the claimte of earth obviously

“And it would destroy the ecology of Africa and probably Europe.”
“Not as much as the coming ice age will.”

Damn...

“No, I won’t,” said Stratt.
“Ma’am. I’ll have to restrain you if you don’t comply.”
“You and what army?” Stratt asked.
Five armed men in military fatigues entered the courtroom and took up station around her. “Because I have the U.S. Army,” she said. “And that’s a damn fine army.”

the only time the U.S. Army actually did something right. But in all seriousness Stratt is terrifying and I love her

“♩♪♫♪!!!” he says. I’m pretty sure that was a squeal of glee.
“Look. Look,” I say. “Rocky. Rocky! Yo!”
He finally stops playing with the unintentional toy.
I pull some tape out on my tape measure, then point to the markings. “Look! Here! See these?”

You know what even if he dies after this it was sooo damn worth it!!

but I told Rocky I’d be back in two hours and I wouldn’t want him to think humans are untrustworthy. I mean…we’re pretty untrustworthy, but I don’t want him to know that.

The hex wall is gone—it’s been replaced by a solid wall of clear material. And on the other side of that wall is Rocky. He’s a spider. A big-assed spider.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is that you??🤣 he loves spider aliens too

I should be more focused on the “first contact with intelligent aliens” thing or the “save all of humanity” thing, but gosh darn it, I can spend a moment to be happy about being right when everyone said I was wrong!

Ryland is hilarious I loveeeee him.

“Meet us at the airport in one hour or I’ll have the Swiss Gendarmerie drag you there in two hours. Your call.” Lokken stared at the door, flabbergasted, then back to me. “You get used to it,” I said.

I wonder if I our world rn is ending would ppl come together this way to solve it? I kinda don't think it could happen

I mean…my ship is powered by aliens. But this new one is intelligent!
Oh my gosh! This is it! First Contact! I’m the guy! I’m the guy who meets aliens for the first time!

We would be great friends.

This…this is an alien spacecraft. Made by aliens. Aliens intelligent enough to make a spacecraft.
Humanity isn’t alone in the universe. And I’ve just met our neighbors.

“Holy fucking shit!” is right!!!

“So you either take your chances with picking the best possible candidates and maybe they kill each other, or you take your chances on yet-to-be-developed medical technology to automatically care for a lower tier of talent.”

“You kind of suck,” I say.

I sadly have to agree this AI is sooo dumb chatgtp is better 🤣