Speak to me only in Science Fiction

Just me and my little knife! Snip snip - slice slice… can you believe it?

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

It’s not worth the anxiety and stress.

He was six-feet-four and maybe still growing, and when he stood up straight, his head was up past spin center in the barrel and spin gravity was pulling his head the other way. He said it made him feel dizzy and upside down.

Giants’ hands gripped my arms and legs and head, gently but with great firmness, and tried to pull me in two. In that moment it came to me that Peter Laskin had died like this. He’d made the same guesses I had, and he’d tried to hide in the access tube. But he’d slipped… as I was slipping… From the control room came a multiple shriek of tearing metal. I tried to dig my feet into the hard tube walls. Somehow they held.

When I got my eyes open the red dot was shrinking into nothing.

This a hospital?

At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital

When they finally make up their minds to really talk to you honestly, they want you to be just as honest with them in return, even when you both know that if you tell the truth, it’s only going to make things worse. Really worse.

You hurt one, you hurt them all.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

On this day, however, with the first indication that great events were about to transpire, he interrupted his screed and was all business. “What’s that noise at the edge of the corona?” he asked suddenly.

It sounds like Han!

Looks like we have a hole in security.

Then they all rose in deference to the cheerful custom of standing whenever a security official of the government was in the room.

Perhaps they do government work that is so secret, security precautions prevent them from having a webpage.

“I’m sure the ransom money—that is to say, the port fees—will be forthcoming the minute they see us all back at Sector HQ, safe and sound.”

“Indeed?” Shilth said in a bored tone. “And if I allowed you to depart, what surety would I then have that the just indemnities will be paid?”

“You have the word of a diplomat,” Magnan said promptly.

“I admire your coolness, Magnan,” Shilth said with a little bow, “assaying jests at such a moment.”

Speaking of humans, have I shown you my new monocle? Cost me a king’s ransom. Made from the eye of a king, don’t you know!

Megatron: “Is the future of our race not worth a single human life?”

A minute later, the robot reported the task was completed.

Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!