Trike

“Sometimes you go through your whole life not rocking the boat and they throw you over the side anyway.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“The hardest part about working with aliens and saving humanity from extinction is constantly having to come up with names for stuff.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I’d always said that if and when the aliens actually landed, it would be a letdown. I mean, after War of the Worlds, Close Encounters, and E.T., there was no way they could live up to the image in the public’s mind, good or bad. I’d also said that they would look nothing like the aliens of the movies, and that they would not have come to A) kill us, B) take over our planet and enslave us, C) save us from ourselves à la The Day the Earth Stood Still, or D) have sex with Earthwomen. I mean, I realize it’s hard to find someone nice, but would aliens really come thousands of light-years just to get a date? Plus, it seemed just as likely they’d be attracted to warthogs. Or yucca. Or air-conditioning units.”
― Connie Willis, All Seated on the Ground

“Villains were never morning people. They had to stay sharp for midnight plotting.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil