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- That and the eight whiskered-alloy rods that stand between us and eternity.†
Part 1 *
- But crouching among the exposed alloy ribs of the ancient craft, I could imagine the rejoicing of the seventy survivors, their short voyage to the Cleft, their eventual discovery of the basilica, and...and what?†
Part 1
- The alloy spikes still conducted current even when...I could see it...feel it...surging through what was left of the body.†
Part 1
- Filling three full city blocks, rising more than a hundred and fifty meters to its central, sharpened spire, the Shrike Church's central temple was part awe-inspiring cathedral, part Gothic joke with its fluid, buttressed curves of stone permabonded to its whiskered-alloy skeleton, part Escher print with its tricks of perspective and impossible angles, part Boschian nightmare with its tunnel entrances, hidden chambers, dark gardens, and forbidden sections, and-more than anything else-it had been part of Hyperion's past.†
Part 2
- Melted alloy girders rose from the stones like the ribs of some giant carcass.†
Part 2
- I dealt with the Ding an $iÑžh, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.†
Part 3
- The alloy and ferroconcrete pedestrian strip where we had been a second before burned, bubbled, sagged, and tumbled down onto the flaming walkway below.†
Part 5
- That pen was used by construction workers to scrawl marks on girders of whiskered alloy.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(alloy) a metal that consists of more than one element
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)