“Oh,” Patricia said. “Then I’m a witch. I guess.” “Ah.” The eagle’s hooked beak clicked. “But you will have to prove it. Or both you and Dirrp will be punished.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“Well, he definitely didn’t want to think about that. Cameron listened, but nothing came. He’d heard a phantom sound, or perhaps whoever was out there had finally found them, and was now in hiding, waiting for them to emerge.”
― Judgment
― Judgment
“Yes, sure, Piper thought. We’re carrying a key that we thought would deactivate an alien doomsday device. But of course, once we realized it was an archive rather than a weapon, the Astrals were no less interested in pursuit. From Little Cottonwood Canyon to Heaven’s Veil to Mount Sinai to cities under Turkey, we’ve stayed interesting as long as we’re still holding the ball.”
― Judgment
― Judgment
“helped me to make my superstorm as plausible as possible. Lydia Chilton helped me create a realistic AI. Mike Swirsky was a huge help with the Siberian drilling project, and Dr. Dave Goldberg helped a lot with the weird physics. I also learned a lot from the Cornell Bird Lab. Lightninglouie gave the book its epigraph. And my father helped me a lot with the book’s philosophical conundrums, while my mother helped me think about how”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“The next instant felt very long. At last Odo straightened up and faced Skyler. He wore a fixed grin. “It could be a sign of new processes going on in Europa. A massive volcanic eruption of water vapor. This could completely alter our understanding of cryovolcanism on Jupiter’s icy moons!”
― Freefall
― Freefall
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