Austin Beeman

“Poor critter, Doc thought. Marooned here like Robinson Crusoe. And we’re the cannibal savages.”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“The snow came quickly, white hornets stinging in the thin atmospheric night.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Big Book of Science Fiction

“You have to remember that my parents are children of the fifties, raised on lead paint and Jell-O mold salads.”
― Chris Kassel, Magna Flamingo

“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