“Mr. Williams, in your short time boarding with us you’ve seen very little of my home,” Eleanor said. “I’d like you to see the rest of it, starting with my bedroom.” ActionFictionYaAliensAiIntrigueInvasionAlien InvasionFirst ContactPlots Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“You have just placed yourself in an untenable position, Mr. Mathews. You have made a threat that you cannot carry out. I’m not intimidated by your gun, so I won’t be going anywhere with you. I think you should re-read the book on successful information gathering techniques.” LiteratureFictionAdventureDramaYaAiSci FiIntrigueEtSpaceship Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“Roughly translated into English I am Galactic Exploration and Research Intelligence number twenty-seven.” “The first letter of those words comes out G.E.R.I., so I’ll call you GERI if that’s okay.” LiteratureAdventureDramaScience FictionYaSci FiGravityEntertainingEtSpaceship Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“In science fiction books characters always seem to have a weapon that can be set on stun. Do you have anything like that?” I asked. GERI laughed. He was getting better at it. “Yes, Tom, I have something like that.” ActionFictionYaAliensAiIntrigueAlien InvasionFirst ContactPlotsNvasion Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“I turned completely around to make sure of what I was seeing. I needn’t have worried about getting the vehicle out of the hole. It had done that by itself.” LiteratureFictionAdventureDramaScience FictionYaSci FiEtSpaceshipNtrigue Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“Tom, does this activity that we are undertaking qualify for the moniker cloak-and-dagger?” GERI asked. “I think it does, but I don’t share your enthusiasm for it. I’m the agent on the ground and potentially the one in the line-of-fire.” “Do not worry, Tom. I have got your six,” GERI said, and laughed.” LiteratureFictionAdventureYaAiIntrigueAlien InvasionEtSpaceshipPlots Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“I couldn’t make sense out of what I was seeing. There was a shiny metal arm about an inch thick with a joint in the middle and a knob on the end. The arm was knocking the knob against the window. The oddest thing was that the arm wasn’t connected to anything. It appeared to be floating by itself in midair!” ActionEnergyMysteryAdventureScience FictionMysteriousRulesScifiVillainsSkilful Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“He wasn’t being arrogant. It wasn’t self-confidence that a human would have because they had been successful in the past. GERI was simply certain he would be successful because he was what he was—a superlative intellect, perhaps the only one of his caliber.” ActionEnergyMysteryAdventureScience FictionMysteriousRulesScifiVillainsSkilful Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“Eleanor, I bought the Simpson place because I’ve always wanted the forest on that land. I got more than I bargained for. Tuesday, I went out there to take a walk in the forest and I found something. That something has become as you say my ‘friend.” ActionEnergyMysteryAdventureMysteriousRulesOuter SpaceVillainsEnticingSkilful Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“It took me all day to get that car out. Well, it wasn’t a car. That’s just what I thought it might be when I spotted part of it jutting out from decades of forest undergrowth, and moss, inside a mound of blackberry bushes.” ActionScienceSpaceFantasyAliensAiInvasionAlien InvasionFirst ContactPlots Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“That got to me. I wasn’t communicating with a computer. Inside this machine was a sophisticated, self-aware intelligence, and it wanted me to be its friend.” ActionScienceSpaceFantasyAliensAiInvasionAlien InvasionFirst ContactPlots Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“They are crystals, Mr. Williams,” Ferg said, “but unlike any other crystals on this planet. If I were to put a label on the spheres, each is a Dynamically Layered Organic Crystal Lattice. Something like this has been theorized, but it has remained in the theory stage because no one could imagine how to make them.” ActionEnergyAdventureScience FictionSci FiGravityEntertainingOuter SpaceVillainsEnticing Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“Why are you not having me take you there?” GERI asked. “I could have had you there in twenty minutes.” “I appreciate the offer, GERI. I don’t know what I’m getting into. I don’t want to have to explain to someone how I got to South Carolina so fast. I need to have this trip well documented.” ActionEnergyMysteryAdventureScience FictionMysteriousRulesScifiSkilful Book:Tom and G.E.R.I. Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.