Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps’ (the goldfield police).

Although sexual behavior is not well studied in the order, observations exist for members of both snakefly families.

Ramant’s brain had to switch gears. Of course he knew that the Vonarians used a gender-neutral pronoun set when referring to themselves, and he’d even practiced it, but when it rolled off Boë’s sweet and mellow tongue it sounded like an alien language.