Andromeda Book

1) '''Seeker, you are expected. Welcome to Norma Museum.'
So said the android who showed me into the airlock and guided me through into the hotel. Here as elsewhere, androids occupied all menial posts. I glanced at the calendar clock in the foyer, punching my wrisputer like all arriving travellers to discover where in time Earth might be now.''

2) ''[Ed.] I know almost nothing about George R R Martin except that he lives in Chicago and is another writer rapidly making a name for himself in science fiction. With the allies he has, how can he lose?''

3) ''So Granton died, with no one there to help him in his last seconds of life. He died in pain and horror at his own condition; it is likely that he was mad at the end, before the slimy mass enveloped his heart and covered his staring eyes, for the gurgle that escaped his lips bore a close resemblance to a laugh. Then even his helmet visor was shrouded in obscenity.
They left his body. In time the earth would reclaim the metal and the bones, and the tackymat would perish itself in the sun.''