Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”What do you know? I’m in command

How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

Turns out even NASA can't improve on duct tape.

I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.

It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.

Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).

Space is dangerous. It's what we do here. If you want to play it safe all the time, go join an insurance company.

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.