Scott Westerfeld
4 Quotations from Scott Westerfeld
astrogational adj. | 2000 | Movements of Her Eyes in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Apr. 14 The AI often created astrogational simulations. They were staggeringly complex, but at least finite. Metaspace was predictable.
gravitied adj. 1 | 2000 | Movements of Her Eyes in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Apr. 15 Her stomach clenched when she looked down through the transparent floor; the party was on the lowest level of a spin-gravitied ring, and black infinity seemed to be pulling at her through the glassene window. The AI lovingly recorded the parameters of this unfamiliar vertigo.
inhuman n. | 2007 | Extras 226 Her eyes were drawn to the inhuman’s strange face. His skin was pale, his arms thin and weak-looking, but the needles on his fingertips were unambiguous—they were designed to do some damage. But the strangest thing was the inhuman’s feet. Bare and misshapen, they looked almost like hands, their long toes curled up like a dead spider’s legs.
planetside n. | 2003 | Killing of Worlds 186 When he’d first been assigned to planetside, Private Akman had been glad to escape the Lynx.