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At least Tripping the Rift is the token SF show on for that night.
January 2004 2004
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At least Tripping the Rift is the token SF show on for that night.
The 'SciFi' Channel 2004
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Foul Rift is ahalf-mile run of ledge-slashed haystacks, souse holes, and standing waves.
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"Beyond the Aquila Rift" is set in a future with interstellar flight through a barely understood system long abandoned by the aliens that built it, and involves one of the occasional errors where ships arrive far from their intended destinations. "(source)
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Back in December, I entered a competition over at the podcast The Chronic Rift, which is devoted to discussion on the latest in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic art.
Audio Drama – Decisions by Michael A. Burstein – on The Chronic Rift 2009
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On a large scale these features are known as Rift Valleys (Figure 11).
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Lying outside the Local Bubble, the Rift is the farthest point in the galaxy we've ever traveled to.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Now they're keeping an eye on something called Rift Valley Fever.
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Have you heard of something called Rift Valley Fever?
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The place of occurrence was a planet in the spiral arm of the galaxy across the tremendous gulf of empty space which we now call Rift Two Hundred Forty; the time, as has been said, was in the unthinkably remote past.
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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