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  • As they advanced, the corridor went gloomy, and more gloomy, until it was coalsack dark.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • But something was glowing within the dark mass like a rare green star emerging from a coalsack nebula.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Jupiter could be seen, a thin gold crescent and the rest of the oblate disc a coalsack faintly rimmed with light.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Jupiter could be seen, a thin gold crescent and the rest of the oblate disc a coalsack faintly rimmed with light.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Bribe me with a sinecure to forget how Sandra sat with a paintbrush in a coalsack of a room, till she fainted from exhaustion, and how she gave us her last food ... how I myself worked my brain and my heart out, to pull us all back from that jailhouse country and win a war to boot — No, don’t interrupt.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • "Just that Feo Astaff asked if I could coalsack you from Terrans, because you and friends had had fight with marines.

    The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • "Just that Feo Astaff asked if I could coalsack you from Terrans, because you and friends had had fight with marines.

    The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

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