David D. Levine
2 Quotations from David D. Levine
| heat ray n. | 2013 Letter to the Editor in Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination 53 But, as any thoughtful consumer of today’s media knows, it is the frame in which the facts are considered, rather than the facts themselves, that determines their emotional content and the impression the viewer carries away. Rather than ‘Mad Genius Threatens Crowd with Heat Ray,’ for example, what would you think if you read the headline ‘Philanthropic Inventor Staves Off Global Destruction’? |
| Venusian adj. | 2014 End of Silk Road in Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera (2015) 73 Ugulma’s shop was on the swampier side of town, a typical Venusian structure that looked like a banyan tree topped with a slice of peat bog. |