In SF parlance, a Dyson Sphere is a solid shell completely enclosing a star at a distance of roughly 1 AU, providing a living surface billions of times greater than that of a terrestrial planet, powered by absorbing 100% of the energy of the englobed star. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2010)
The menus had disappeared; they sat now with drinks before them, englobed in mellow candlelight. ❋ Maritta Wolff (2009)
It's a meditation too englobed to excerpt, so enjoy it in its entirety here, and don't miss the barbed pastiche by Kim Addnizio that asks, in response to Eliot's "April is the cruelest month ...," ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)
A fetus may be inside the woman's body, englobed, and kept alive by it, but he is not part of her body. ❋ Suzanne (2006)
An immaterial hand slid through the field that englobed the imp, seized what it had vomited and carried it toward Pasgen. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)
Preprogrammed to his specified level of individual comfort, it set about evaporating from his skin the water and the dirt it had englobed. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2005)
In Cold Blood englobed a tragic episode and preserved it as a sepia piece of Americana. ❋ Wolcott, James (2005)
It was a procession never to be forgotten by all who saw it: the gracefulGr'msketter, sails set and making her way southwest, englobed by millions of colored lights worn by as fantastic a profusion of undersea life as could be assembled in one place. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
He was too important - so important that the KK-drive dreadnought conveying him back to Treetrunk traveled englobed in a cruiser-and-destroyer convoy. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
Then the tractors dropped away; each Lalairu ship went into warp independently, spreading out and around the pirate ships . . . and suddenly the englobers were the englobed. ❋ DIANE DUANE (2000)
The public channels had claimed that brave and noble Fleet warships had brought the "pirate" vessel to battle just beyond ch'Rihan's atmosphere, demonstrating with many and various models, diagrams, and computer-simulated animations the manner in which it had been englobed and blown apart as it tried frantically to flee from the engagement. . . ❋ Diane Duane (2000)
There was a massive Alban battle cruiser, itself englobed in its own tactical group. ❋ Shatner, William (1999)
The emerging Alban ships were already neatly englobed. ❋ Shatner, William (1997)
It englobed the picked-over hull of a City Builder starship and lifted. ❋ Niven, Larry (1996)
