Space Is an Ocean/Quotes

"When and if man ever breaches the womb of our solar system and is born in earnest as an interstellar being, only one thing will be certain: It will be exactly like sailing. That, or the old West."

- Michael Swaim of Cracked.com, "The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions of the Future and Why They'll Never Happen"

"The space destroyer was on a six-month cruise in the Western Pacific Sector. It was two days out of Subic Spaceport in the Philios system when the ion storm struck. Meanwhile, many of the off duty sailors and officers were experiencing nauspace and lightheadedness, the initial symptoms of space scurvy."

- An exaggeration of this trope from the RPG Codex forums

"Being a space trucker sounds like a cool job, but in reality, it can be boring as hell. So when recently widowed Gil gets a long-haul gig across the universe, he figures it’s safe enough to bring his young son Kadyn along for the ride—that is, until their “big rig” gets bitten in half by a gigantic Space Leviathan! Now separated from his son—with a breached suit that’s venting oxygen at an alarming rate—Gil must defy the odds and stay alive long enough to rescue Kadyn. But meanwhile, Kadyn seems to be getting all the help he needs from a talking Space Monkey riding a Space Dolphin…"

- from the blurb of Sea of Stars #1