Tak! quoted The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
There were many things Asuka did not consider when she agreed to travel from one sun to another.
— The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
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There were many things Asuka did not consider when she agreed to travel from one sun to another.
— The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
You are alone when you die.
The largest private collection of rare artifacts from other worlds could be found in central New Jersey at Princeton University, and if anyone knew Maya Hoshimoto was a thief, they wouldn’t have let her anywhere near there.
They say never start a story with a waking, but when you’ve been hard asleep for thirty years it’s difficult to know where else to begin.
‘Humans are a necessary annoyance,’ my mother had said to me.
We were waiting for things to converge.
My father kept a dragon eye upon his desk.
— Navola
"The king wishes to be cooked alive," the royal secretary said, accepting the proffered saucer and cup and immediately setting both aside.
“Your mother is going to be a star,” said the man in the gray uniform.
— Counterweight by Anton Hur, Djuna
Captain Darian Frey was accustomed to long odds; his whole life, he’d been an outside chance. Lacking the ability to win in a fair fight, he survived instead by guile and the illogical optimism favoured by gamblers and drunks, which made the riskiest of plans seem like a good idea at the time.
‘On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.’
Darian Frey was a man who understood the value of a tactical retreat.
The smuggler held the bullet between thumb and forefinger, studying it in the weak light of the store room.
Somewhere in Jal’s file was a note from an old crewmate that read, Jalsen Red will either be the reason you die, or the reason you live. Good fucking luck.
Standing next to his step box, Baxter hovers: immobile and elastic, ready to spring forward to lift a suitcase, dissect a timetable, point to the conductor, nod, lift more suitcases, now hat boxes, answer more questions, and nod, nod, nod.