... pursuers were indeed tall, perhaps almost the height of Dr. DuQuesne or, counting the twin crests that seemed to adorn each head, even taller. Green and black patterns spotted the chitin-shiny surface of the things, and what appeared to be beetle-like split wingcases were on their backs. A long tail, flexibledespite the chitinous exterior, rippled behind each of the creatures, adorned with what ...
... "And the pattern of materials makes sense from that perspective," DuQuesne agreed. "If you want to fasten things permanently together – welding, glue, whatever – you can find an appropriate surfacepretty muchanywhere. Without having whatever technology they used to make the foundation material." He turned to Sandrisson. "By the way, I know you were looking over the results Edlund got ...
... see the flowers floating on the surface. Hundreds of them, really – but unlike...the cavalcade of trumpets from the arena. A roar lifted from the crowd... Alice, and pointed to the arena; a young man appeared at one... turned to look at the arena. The young Tyminian no longer ... along the dirt of the arena, and Alice could just see ... stone that scattered across the arena. Alice could tell immediately that ...
...situation will bring them to the surface regardless. He speaks only for the...is something on the planet's surface that causes the madness he and...he was transporting down to the surface, sir. Your orders were that no...be filled again brings to the surface the most unpleasant and self-... be none on the planet surface, Doctor,” Spock points out almost ... says because it's his arena now. He looks back, and ...
... among those: grass. Particularly the grass found spread along the surface of a well-tended cricket pitch. Temporalcycling aside, it ... desperation, he'd taken refuge in something called the 'virtual arena', which was perfectly capable of creating a holographic environment that ... about what other virtual environments were available. Odder than the arena itself was the fact that it didn't appear to ...
...and its splendor was such that an arena was built around it so that sports...emotion spread by those who visited the arena-templegrounds. Aware but not quite conscious...had found and brought them to the surface, giving them what semblance of life it...they were wise enough to know an arena when they saw one. They moved cautiously... Blood Bowl came to the templearena. Watching, the old kings were enthused:...
... widened slightly, and in some angles of light DuQuesne thought he saw patterns on the flat surface; but whenever he stopped and tried to examine them, there was nothing there. Rounding another ... abruptly ended at an open space. Their path continued and joined with a flat, paved-looking surfacecovered with regular hexagonal tiles about a meter across; looking to the sides, they could ...
..., the model of the solar system. It appears to show every body in the solar system, down to a certain size. I'm not quite sure, but the actual cutoff seems to be on bodies with a surface gravity below about a quarter of a meter per second. Is that significant, Dr. Sandrisson?" "It may very well be. Let me check something." He got the distracted look of someone digging through electronic ...
... up before her, showing the 200 meter long Holy Grail and then moving outward. A nearly flat surfacejust a few dozen meters away. More… farther… "Holy shit." She finally said, unable ... through the center of the enclosure, none more than a relatively few kilometers off of that imaginary surface. Judging by the minimal data left from the recorders during their emergency stop, they'd first entered...
.... --- Ling opened his eyes as familiar noises invaded his sleep. Battle cries drifted in from the practicearena outside, and he picked up Lan Fan’s voice among them. “Home?” He shot up to a ...to him. The gilded frame was carved elaborately, with symbols he’d only glimpsed in Xerxes, and the surface of the mirror, through clear and bright in the sunshine, was not accurate. Signs of luxury he’d...
