Austin Beeman

“She watched us go with envious fear.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Big Book of Science Fiction

“Friendships die in all the manifold ways that anything human dies: they crash suddenly in a fiery explosion; they are murdered by others, whether with deliberate cold malice or as unnoticed collateral damage; they are struck by sudden cancer and wither in the space of a few agonizing months; they simply decline and fade with age.”
― Stephen Saperstein Frug, Zero Second

“At the beach hut they’d been human, a woman, a man, a wife and mother and daughter and a husband and father and son, and they’d crossed themselves, tapped their nails and bitten their lips in unconscious angst. But when they’d got to the launch pad they were Hollywood and sci-fi, Space Odyssey and Disney, imagineered, branded and ready. The rocket peaked in a cap of gleaming newness, absolute and spectacular whiteness and newness, and the sky was a glorious and conquerable blue.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“nearly every dude I know is named Mike or Billy or Steve or Joe-Bob or some variation thereof, and as a subset of mankind, they were too emotionally immature to be memorable.”
― Chris Kassel, Magna Flamingo