Ripley fell back, grabbed a strut support while her other handflailed at and contacted an emergency release. That blew the rear hatch. Instantly, all the air in the shuttle andanything not secured by bolt or strap was sucked out into space. (Alan Dean Foster, Alien: The Official Novelization, 20th CenturyContinue Reading
Never and never, my girl riding far and nearIn the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,Fear or believe that the wolf in a sheep white hoodLoping and bleating roughly and blithely leap,My dear, my dear,Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped yearTo eatContinue Reading
They move away in peace with themselves.To new worlds.Because there are so many in a Universe.And there are so many universes to explore. (Carlos Trillo, Robin of the Stars) Gliese 614 IV, coordinates 285.747/+79.016/20052.661July 25th, 666 GE On the holo-screen, the man’s face was grave—as one might expect from someoneContinue Reading
You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. (Robert De Niro – Al Capone, The Untouchables, 1987) Although Shirl was a product of the werewolves’ twisted science, when Twiglet spotted her beyond the thick plastiglass window separating the mainContinue Reading
The object was white plaster. It looked like the cast of a disk-shaped, deep-graven stone. A part of the curved rim of the original must have been worn flat; it must have been cracked, he saw, and a little segment lost. That sweet fetor clung to it in an evilContinue Reading
New Xanadu, coordinates 000.000/000.000/000.000July 24th, 666 GE It seems that I have what might be called a rather unusual power […] everyone loves me, every thing in fact. […] The ugliest old man, the sweetest young child, yearn only for one thing from me. Life is hell, I tell you.Continue Reading
[…] the Jedi Temple stood alone. A colossal pyramid with multiple spires rising skyward from its flat top, it sat apart from everything at the end of a broad promenade linking it with bulkier, sharper-edged towers in which solitude and mediation were less likely to be found. Within the TempleContinue Reading
“Don’t call me stupid!” “Oh, right: to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs! But you think you are an intellectual, don’t you, ape?” (Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda,Continue Reading
