"At first we thought it might be an outcrop of magnetic rock," Dr. Michaels said, "but all the geological evidence was…"

"For three million years, it had circled Saturn, waiting for a moment of destiny that might never come. In its making,…"

"He was back, precisely where he wished to be, in the space that men called real."

"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since t…"

"...there was already something in his gaze beyond the capability of any ape. In those dark, deep-set eyes was a dawni…"

"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on…"

"Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a r…"

"In the caves, between spells of fitful dozing and fearful waiting, were being born the nightmares of generations yet …"

"And then there came a sound which Moon-Watcher could not possibly have identified, for it had never been heard before…"

""I met Moisevitch at the Space Station…he'd heard of TMA-1; rumors are beginning to leak out. But we just can't issue…"