Tim

“a seat belt, smoke in public spaces, or “cross a public roadway while immersed in a virtual reality.” Not that much of that sort of thing went on just yet, anyway. Black”
― John Birmingham, Designated Targets

“Seeing life through your rectum was no way to live, he thought. What would John Wayne have said about that?!”
― Benjamin Laskin, Murphy’s Luck 2

“But later, standing in triage, surrounded by a pile of bloody rags that had been cut from the body of an eight-year-old boy who was now in surgery, having a gangrenous leg amputated, she felt the black heat rising inside her head again. It made her wish she’d gone with Cooper. What the hell is wrong with people that they’d do these things—to little kids? It”
― John Birmingham, Designated Targets

“but she argued that lessons could be learned from the hysteria of the time. “Comet pills, comet insurance and a million other scams are likely to pop up in a bid to separate you from your financial resources,”
― Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone: The Contact Trilogy: Complete Box Set #1-3