I am like Montu as king of Egypt, fear of me has dompted the Nine Bows, / It is Amun-re, my precious father, who overthrows every land beneath my feet, / I being king upon [his] throne forever!

I could see no more of her face that the sharp bridge of her nose. Except what I caught misreflected in the hair dryer – her enlarged ear.

‘ […] Snakes kill. Nobody fools around with Joe Blakes, girlie. Bloke who fools around with snakes is a flamin′ idiot.’

Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.