K. A. Bedford

"“The bloody future,” Spider muttered. “What’s it ever done for us?"

"And in that moment, Spider noticed a strange thing. He found to his surprise that he did not dislike Mr. Patel. Which, obviously, was a long way from liking the man, but who knew? Maybe that would com…"

"He swore, pissed off, trying to keep the past in the past instead of stinking up the present."

"The thing Spider hated about time machines was that people got them, thinking they could fix everything that had gone wrong in their lives. Thinking they could go back and make amends for things they …"

"He’d lived with a mad sculptress for long enough that he knew that much of what passed for art these days was bullshit, all naked emperors and nobody commenting on it. In any case, as soon as he regis…"

"The future was not what it used to be."

"“But that...” Spider paused, “is a fine piece of movie magic.” From a time when movies were magic, the last days of the old Hollywood studio system. These days if a film called for a prop like that, i…"

"The coffee, when he tried it, was strong almost to the point of being unbearable, but not quite. In short, it was divine."