Austin Beeman

“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

“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

“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