beastie

• The original Toho beastie was silly, but that was, at least, part of his charm. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
• As a result of those shoddy visual effects, the bloodthirsty beastie is never a credible menace, even when it's stalking troops in night shadows. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
• The female polarity will pay a high price for your beastie. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 1 - Fire Dancer (v1.0)
• That's a different beastie, which is why writers invent headsets, helmets, implantable direct-to-brain data jacks, etc., etc. I tend to use a “neural inducer” because the term alone is enough to imply everything I need, and I can let it induce those nerves with whatever precision is necessary for the VR to have whatever level of verisimilitude the story requires That brings us back to GPS. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
• "But it couldn't possibly offend anyone, since these kids are so unlike the beastie boys and girls of tabloid imagination that you scarcely recognise them as modern children." —  GreenCine Daily

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