Austin Beeman

“every time I lose a lover, I mourn by quitting my job,”
― 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

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

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