strangelings

Her work, which she shared with us via a slideshow, was breathtaking – these pristine little dioramas, frozen scenes from some alternative kidverse of talking-animal storybook characters and various human strangelings, all going about their daily Lilliputian lives inside her little black boxes.

Boing Boing 2009

Stick in hand, I passed forward, and the strangelings moved about me, appeared at windows, on balconies, on benches, at gates ...

Sign of the Unicorn Zelazny, Roger 1975

It's terrible, don't you know, to be a deserted child or a tortured child or a crippled child and have nothing to do but sit up in that bare, clean little room upstairs with a lot of other strangelings -- and just think on the cruelty that's brought you here and the cruelty you may get into when you leave here.

In the Bishop's Carriage Miriam Michelson 1906

It's terrible, don't you know, to be a deserted child or a tortured child or a crippled child and have nothing to do but sit up in that bare, clean little room upstairs with a lot of other strangelings -- and just think on the cruelty that's brought you here and the cruelty you may get into when you leave here.

In The Bishop's Carriage. 1903

So I promised the strangelings a Saturday morning trip to Borders, where they could spend their pocket money on a book each.

In a strange land Deborah 2010

So I promised the strangelings a Saturday morning trip to Borders, where they could spend their pocket money on a book each.

In a strange land Deborah 2010

He has brought back trinkets for the strangelings, and something for me.

In a strange land 2009

Since RHIC has been operating safely for years, and it's set-up made it even more likely to produce strangelets if such creation were possible, then the LHC poses little risk of converting us into strangelings.

Livescience.com 2008

I prefer to spread raspberry jam (jelly) over the cake, and then add what the strangelings call

WordPress.com News 2008