A. Ashley Straker

Quotes

• “For a moment, Simon's sympathetic nervous system forgot he was arachnophobic. The sight of those spindly legs rising, li...”
• “Something was wrong with the devices themselves. Digging deep into the internal structure of the circuit boards with pow...”
• “The attack came without warning, in the pre-dawn stillness on the day they were due to leave. A series of solid concussi...”
• “Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I w...”
• “Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If t...”
• “The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to whi...”
• “The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench...”
• “You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who look...”
• “Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'...”
• “On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing...”
• “Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After...”
• “He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches...Six legs were fine, but...”
• “But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than...”
• “...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley b...”
• “Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, ...”
• “Well, whatever happened here today...' he said, turning back to Popescu and donning his own sunglasses so he could discr...”
• “...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.W...”
• “He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to reali...”
• “Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might ...”
• “Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak ...”
• “Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical...”
• “But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But o...”
• “She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.”
• “His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.”
• “Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.”
• “Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.”
• “Oh, man, she's gonna love you,' Max said. 'Physically. A lot.”
• “I'm psychologically equipped for this.”
• “Fear is quite the anaesthetic”