There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.
There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just another weapons system -- which they are not. Weapons may have...
Even Azathoth is bored of this tune.
You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
How can this be real? I whispered. I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?Try and stop...