...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures. When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

— A. Ashley Straker

Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them as the Colossus of Rhodes had stood above man.

— A. Ashley Straker

Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?' The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.

— A. Ashley Straker

But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn't until much later that he was able to identify it. Excitment.

— A. Ashley Straker

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

— A. Ashley Straker

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.' Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

— A. Ashley Straker

Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and Virgie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'put. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.

— A. Ashley Straker

Fear is quite the anesthetic

— A. Ashley Straker

For a moment, Simon's sympathetic nervous system forgot he was arachnophobic. The sight of those spindly legs rising, like an ink drawing popping out of paper into three-dimensional space, should have caused a surge of adrenaline, a yelp of panic, and at least three feet of involuntary back-peddling.

— A. Ashley Straker

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...

— A. Ashley Straker