The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.

BMW Oracle and its backer, the Golden Gate Yacht Club, won a ruling April 2 that gave them the right to negotiate terms for the next America’s Cup. If terms are not reached on a multichallenger regatta, the Americans will have the right to face Alinghi in a best-of-three series in multihulls.

Thus let us assume an unweird model of the cosmos in which the handedness of objects is a well-defined global property, in relation to the background metric of space-time.

He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.