[…] stock footage, boring cliches, more stock footage, a fourth-rate pop score, kiddie show–level Martian surface sets, and skinny, crooked stalks representing one-eyed monsters who operate out of an appearing-disappearing sphere (one reviewer likened it to “a rolled-up ball of aluminum foil”!). Instead of debuting on TV as originally intended, this interstellar trashterpiece instead received theatrical release from Allied Artists several months following the February 1968 suicide of Adams.

The field equations can be obtained from a thermodynamic variational principle which extremises the total heat density of all null surfaces.

Dogmatic apodictism is essentially characteristic of faith.

My assailant stood a little; in the thick darkness I could see him bob and sidle as though he were feinting at me for an advantageous onfall.