Craven's super-saturated force-fields nearly breach the Invincible's screens
“A streak of terrible light was striking at them from the Interplanetarian, blinding white light, and along that highway of light swarmed a horde of little green figures, like squirming green amoebas, swarming toward the invincible, stretching out hungry pale green pseudopods towards the inversion barrier, and eating through it. Wherever they touched, holes appeared. They drifted through the inversion screen easily, and began drilling into the inner screen of anti-entropy, eating their way into the anti-entropy, into a state of matter which Russ and Greg had thought would resist all change.”
“I'll make it easy for you, Manning, Chambers said. I know that all of us are guilty. Guilty in the eyes of the people and the law. Guilty in your eyes. If we had won, there would have been no penalty. There's never a penalty for the one who wins. Penalty? said Greg, his eyes half-smiling. Why, yes, I think there is. I'm going to order you aboard the Invincible, for something to eat and to get some rest.”
Stutzman's mutiny strands the villains heading toward the wrong star
“They probably found another G-type star and are heading for that. They must thank its old soul. That sounds like it, said Greg. We spun all over the map to throw Craven off, and looped several times so we'd lose all sense of direction. Naturally, he would be lost. But he's evidently got something, Russ pointed out. We left him marooned, dead centre, out where he didn't have too much radiation, and couldn't get leverage on any single body. Yet he's moving, and getting farther away all the time.”
Cheap energy ends Interplanetary's monopoly and reshapes the solar system
“The Revolution was over. Interplanetary officials and army heads had fled to the sanctuary of Earth. Interplanetary was ended, ended for ever, for on every world, including Earth, material energy engines were humming. The people had power to burn, to throw away. Power so cheap that it was practically worthless as a commodity, but invaluable as a way to a new life, a greater life, a fuller life, a broader destiny for the human race.”
Greg refuses to abandon his enemies marooned in deep space
“Greg rubs his fist indecisively along the desk. I can't do it, Russ. We took them out there, we marooned them. We have to get them back, or I couldn't sleep nights. Russ laughed quietly, watching the bleak face that stared at him. I knew that's what she'd say.”
Russ discovers the televisor can manipulate time itself
“You sent the televisor back in time. You got it inside the endoplanetarian, before Craven had run up his screen, and then you brought it forward. You guessed it, said Russ, tamping the tobacco into the bowl. We should have thought of that long ago. We have a time factor there. In fact, the whole thing revolves around time. We move the televisor, we use the teletransport by giving the objects we wish to move an acceleration in time.”
Stutzman is sentenced to death by walking in space
“Stutzman, he said, you have four hours of air. That will give you four hours to think, to make your peace with death. He turned toward the other two. Chambers nodded grimly. Craven said nothing. And now, said Greg to Craven, if you will fasten down his helmet. The helmet clanged shut, shutting out the pleas and threats that came from Stutzman's throat.”
