Tak! quoted Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate)
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.
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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.
— Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew by Veo Corva (Space Dragons, #1)
We were waiting for things to converge.
My father kept a dragon eye upon his desk.
— Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
"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.
— The Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #4)
‘On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.’
— The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #3)
Darian Frey was a man who understood the value of a tactical retreat.
— The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #2)
The smuggler held the bullet between thumb and forefinger, studying it in the weak light of the store room.
— Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #1)
On activation each morning Charles’ first duty was to check his master’s travel arrangements for the day.
What do you do when you meet an alien in Central Park?
— Exordia by Seth Dickinson
A crack echoed through the boreal landscape, a momentary chaos in the still afternoon air.
A man was loitering outside the bookshop.
— Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan
Anything at the mercy of such a divine female must, to them, necessarily be a man.
— Steelflower at Sea (The Steelflower Chronicles) by Lilith Saintcrow