Chris Berko

“they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home. The”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“Narnok rolled his shoulders and tilted his head left, then right, with terrifying cracks of released tension. The two men at his feet were groaning at different pitches, and Narnok stepped over them, testing the weight of the bar and muttering, “Not as good as the axe, but it’ll do.” He looked up. And grinned. “What’s it to be, then? Two at a time or all six at once?”
― Andy Remic, The Iron Wolves

“Blew up? How?’ ‘We dropped a shielded runcible gate into it while the gate at the other end was moved into position before a stream of near-light-speed asteroids flung out from a spinning black hole.”
― Neal Asher, War Factory

“An information panel was helpfully flashing the word "Emergency". I couldn't fault its grasp of the situation.”
― G.R. Matthews, Nothing Is Ever Simple