"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted…"

"Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its interior smells only of cold and long-chain monomers."

"Damien is thirty, Cayce two years older, but there is some carefully insulated module of immaturity in him, some shy …"

"Mirror-world. The plugs on appliances are huge, triple−pronged, for a species of current that only powers electric ch…"

"There is that mirror−world ingestion of archaic substances, she thinks: People smoke, and drink as though it were goo…"

"She's here on Blue Ant's ticket. Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geograp…"

"But down here, next to a display of Tommy Hilfiger, it's all started to go sideways on her, the trademark thing… My G…"

""You follow the footage." His eyes narrowing… Damien maintains, half−seriously, that followers of the footage compris…"

"But Cayce sees that there is a Michelin Man within her field of vision, its white, bloated, maggot−like form perched …"

"The old man was as American as it got, but in what she thought of as some very recently archaic way. Someone who woul…"