Fashions in writing change.
Here’s info about the convention Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete - Wikipedia
Note that there are still products sold named for concepts from old B-L’s works
“Imagine you are holding a snow globe in your hand and the object inside is not a place you have been to on holiday or a festive bauble but a representation of where you work.”
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, by Julia Hobsbawm
“Once upon a time, twice upon a time, all the way up to six, and I am seven.”
Anthropocene Rag, by Alex Irvine
“In the spring of 1994, I made the second unluckiest bet in Hollywood history.”
Audience-Ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love (Kevin Goetz with Darlene Hayman)
“This will be a good weekend for reading.”
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
“I raised myself on my elbow and called through the open door into the other wagon-lit:
‘My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you did not really want to come to Yugoslavia at all.’”
-Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“The kidney bloomed, going from a miserable grey to many shades of vital red as blood rushed through its newly connected vessels.”
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery, by Paul Craddock.
“These voyages are for Terry, whose own was too brief; we do not speak of grief.”
Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 ed. by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath
“I like to probe the darkness at the edges of our nation’s history. Instead of the triumphs, I’m most interested in the struggle.”
Travels with George by Nathaniel Philbrick
“The volcano that had reared Tratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.”
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
“Notwithstanding the large success of my medical practice of late, my losses have been great these last few years.”
The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Based on the Original Radio Plays by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, by Ken Greenwald. (Note that the above sentence is from the first story, “The Adventure of the Second Generation.”)
“As an independent filmmaker, David Blair had presented his movies at plenty of festivals and college campuses, where the screening ritual was well established.”
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix, by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski.
“I have a theory.”
Extreme Blindside, by Leslea Wahl
“The first sound Paul Simon fell in love with was the crack of a baseball against a Louisville Slugger, preferably one swung by a member of his beloved New York Yankees.”
Paul Simon - The Life, by Robert Hilburn
“What is there to recommend this world?”
Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems, by Nikki Grimes
“You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings; before even the ice wagons come by with ice for the bars?”
– To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway
“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A vampire, a werewolf, and a demon walk into a bar…”
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, by James Alan Gardner
“Baba’s tales of Dhaka were love stories.”
Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family, by Madhushree Ghosh.
I think it’s ready, Ellie says. (sic)
The Fell, by Sarah Moss
“People often ask me if music or acting runs in my family, and the answer is no.”
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life, by Sutton Foster
“I have a ball of starlight inside me.”
Victories Greater than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders
“Her gynecologist recommended him to me.”
– The Water-Method Man, by John Irving