"When Lowbeer wished a conversation in public to be private, which she invariably did, London emptied itself around her."

"I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling."

"They didn’t think Flynne’s brother had PTSD, but that sometimes the haptics glitched him…like phantom limb, ghosts of…"

"“You’re a publicist,” Rainey said. “She’s a celebrity. That’s interspecies.”"

"Nobody liked Luke 4:5, but Burton had a bad thing about them. They’d started out as a church, or in a church, not lik…"

"Netherton’s eyes widened, preparing to pitch something he hadn’t yet invented, none of what he’d said so far having b…"

"He imagined her now, stretched on a couch in her elongated Toronto apartment…She’d be wearing a headband, to trick he…"

"He was watching one of Lev’s two thylacine analogs through the kitchen window.…Now it turned, in its uncanine fashion…"

"And it was like she could see herself there, on the gray gravel in front of Jimmy’s, and the tall old cottonwoods on …"

"Passing a laptop’s screen, Verity saw the president, seated at her desk in the Oval Office, explaining something. If …"