What is "nothings"

Usage examples of "nothings".

One particular favorite of metaphysicians, trying to divert attention from the accusations of their political foes, was that humanity itself, fleeing the potential created by the Great Metaphysical Breakthrough, had willed The nothings into existence as a form of perverse self-protection.

As it was, it gave the impression that over in the nothings there was some sort of spectral nonbridge that perfectly complemented it and held it in place.

More than a few maintained that the mountain had no true exterior, that the nothings simply started at a set average rock depth beyond the interior surface.

Without an SG, or if one suddenly malfunctioned in the middle of the nothings, the human body, and any other solid object, for that matter, went through a process that looked like high-speed evaporation and instantly became one with the non.

A bunch of crazies in cloaks were going to reach out across the nothings and get him.

In the early days of travel through the nothings, in the time of the great arks, numbers of the large lizards had had to be taken on any voyage.

Just as the news of the Great Metaphysical Breakthrough was bringing a strange hope to the beleaguered Thirteenth Empire, the nothings appeared and swiftly devoured reality as the humans had known it, except what little could be saved by the hastily developed stasis generators.

The nothings were the first phase of a cataclysmic matter/nonmatter evolution.

For those who survived the destruction, it was impossible to tell whether the nothings had engulfed just their home planet or half the galaxy.

Their raids took them farther and farther afield, and soon they were regularly leaving their old stomping grounds in the Margins and making sweeps through the nothings, preying on unsuspecting and usually undefended stasis settlements like the one in front of them.

The world had lost enough to the nothings, and if the stories about the disrupters were to be believed, more was lost every day.

He had only to unseat the man, take his lizard and SG, and hightail it for the nothings before a pursuit could be organized.

He estimated that the nothings were no more than seven or eight minutes away at a flat-out gallop, and once he was in the nothings, they would never be able to find him.

He put his spurs to the lizard and set it racing up the road to the pass and the nothings beyond it.

As he hit the stasis controls and plunged into the nothings, he realized that he did not even know the name of the town he had just helped destroy.