And in that land of absolute light and shadow his skin and bone and blood melded to create a cocoon, within which something infinitely strange and terrible could grow.

Gazing at the dwindling, vaguely luminous riverbed as if it were the course of time winding into our infinitely strange future, Bobby said, "They tore a hole in reality.

It seemed markedly more real than anything else in the bathroom, real but so infinitely strange that her terrified gaze ricocheted off one peculiar detail after another, as though her mind fled from the consideration of the true complexity of the construct.

And now behind the whispery muffled roar of the multitude rose the garbled bass voice of... someone else someone who sounded infinitely strange, imperial and demanding.

Impatiently, he looked about the chamber at the twisted and brooding, infinitely strange objects.

Infinitely strange.

The morning ablutions were in no way out of the ordinary, but it seemed infinitely strange to him that this new girl should be waiting on him.

Soon the view from this room or any other would be, to him, like something seen through the porthole of a spacecraft on a far alien planet which superficially resembled his own world but which was, below- its deceptive surface, infinitely strange and inimical to human life.

They were both still bemused, not needing to look to see: still, the tiny, infinitely strange and beautiful scrap of a baby, with red-headed fuzz; the first of a second chain of telepaths with chieri blood.

As he crushed her fingers, he held her not merely with his hand but with his gaze, which was cold and infinitely strange.