“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.