Robert

“They administered pain-control hypnosis and something they called “compensatory neural stimulation,” but trust me, none of it did a damned thing...sort of like giving you two aspirin before setting you on fire.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Piper hadn’t seen V as described by Heather, but she’d seen another of Meyer’s favorites: a rather violent film called District 9. Those aliens had basically run out of intergalactic gas and parked their ship above Johannesburg. Maybe this was like that.”
― Sean Platt, Invasion

“And as for this woman… she’s seems to be wearing very little. Do you think it would have been either moral or practical to wear such skimpy frivolities on a damp fifth century hillside?”
― Heide Goody, Pigeonwings