Oceanic

Passengers are accorded every liberty, and the officers do their utmost to make their guests feel at home, so that in the Orient the Oceanic is the favorite ship, and people wait for months so as to travel on her.

Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890

Clarke may have hoped that we'd outgrow it, and newer writers like Egan (in "Oceanic") may argue that we can and should engineer religiosity out of humanity, but they still take its role in human culture seriously, and know they have to account for it.

MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion? 2008

His name was Louie Psyhoyos and his film company was called the Oceanic Preservation Society, or OPS.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

So, does that mean that Oceanic is in on the story too?

The Tail Section » Season 4 Finale “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 2″ Afterthoughts 2008

And it sounds as though there may be some similarities to Egan's "Oceanic" - settlers have established on a planet, set up a couple of competing religions, and have to contend with some strange biochemistry.

mikandra: a thought about Science Fiction mikandra 2010

CN includes one story not in Oceanic, though), and Otto Penzler's The Vampire Archives (Vintage) with 900 pages of story and 100 pages of vampire fiction bibliography, it is pretty much a must-have (even if they did not list my "Moving Day" short story from 100 Vicious Little Vampires in the bibliography).

MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 2) 2009

I don’t think Oceanic is trying to cover up anything.

The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts 2008

MINISTER SMITH: There is also a separate case of 78 Sri Lankans who are claiming asylum who are on an Australian vessel, called the Oceanic Viking, our Customs vessel.

Press Conference, Australian Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith and Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Rohitha Bogollagama. 2009

Locke tells Sawyer they have to go back to the Orchid so he can get off The Island and bring the others uhm…that is, the Oceanic Six back.

Lost 5.4: The Little Prince | The Disney Blog 2009

At any rate, I have no particular speculations about tonight's episode, except that all the recent references to the finding of Oceanic Flight 815 at the bottom of the ocean may suggest that the newcomers are somehow connected with, or at least motivated by, the recovery of a plane that has been identified as Oceanic 815.

Around the Blogosphere James F. McGrath 2008