« Thirty of Pao's most charming women, ready to satisfy your whims. Palafox casually replies: "Once slit and buried, they could make an acceptable fertilizer. I don't know what other use I could use. » »

« Even today, many classify space travel with astrology and Easter bells. But space travel is tomorrow. Projects and their advancement are for now military secrets, but making assumptions costs nothing and it's fun. Here are some of mine. Around 1965, chemical-powered spacecraft will land humans on the Moon. Around 1968, spacecraft will reach Mars and Venus where they will orbit at the upper limits of the atmosphere. A man will hover with a rocket full of wings to the surface of both... Around 1975, space stations will revolve around the Earth, Mars and Venus. Around 1978, atomic energy was adapted to the propulsion of spacecraft. Around 1980, permanent colonies were born... (*) "Today" - 1950 (Foreword to the novel "The Vandals of the Void") »

« Heinrich, the village communist, angrily pointed out that not far away, in Innsbruck, was the large American internment camp, and that they must have the effects of Coca-Cola and comic books on normal Austrians. - Absurd, barked another man. No Austrian born to a woman has ever possessed such a head, such eyes, such skin. No, these creatures are something else. Salamanders! "Zombies," mumbled someone else. Bodies from the realm of the dead! (In the new "Displaced Persons") »