Supernova Era

by Liu Cixin

As they watched an imperial force ten times their size advance carefully along the river toward them, a kid exclaimed, “God, they’ve even got helicopters!”

"WTF?! TOO OP!!! HAXX! HAXX!"

Huahua picked one up and licked it.

Do not taste unknown substances. Your first taste might be your last.

Lü Gang pulled out a pistol and fired two shots straight up. The bullets pierced the ceiling, and two snowflake cracks appeared in the nanomaterial.

Do you want tinnitus? Because this is how you get tinnitus! Everyone in the vicinity probably has hearing damage, and Lu Wang definitely has some. Silencers are not for just for furtive murders. They protect your hearing. So do earplugs.

There are six kinds of things in the mines: coal, rocks, iron, wood, bones, and flesh. Bones and flesh are the softest, and children’s most of all!

Drunk on French wine and Scottish whisky, the little animals swayed on unsteady feet

Wine & grapes are extremely toxic to dogs. That's a lot of dead puppies.

Vaughn pulled back the bolt with a practiced hand and fired three six-round bursts, shattering the silence in the capital, and the chain of shrill explosions made Davey’s skin crawl.

I cannot stress enough how important ear protection is.

The fighting taking place on the Antarctic continent was an unprecedented form of battle, and one unlikely to be repeated:

The Aztecs did it - they were called Flowery Wars.

People later referred to the “athlete role” of the belligerents who competed in battles set up in a manner never before seen in human history.