From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

An exploring-ship was on its way to a second island universe.

Every one of them is an island universe containing perhaps a hundred billion suns.

I hardly paid any attention to the distant island universes.

They have come out of the great void between the island universes.

A whole island universe seemed to be whirling dizzily before my eyes.

At the back of some people's minds lurk fears that their region may one day become an island universe again.

They were now so near the Island Universe that the stars spread out in a huge disc ahead of them.

So what better way to conquer this new island universe than by turning its own inhabitants against each other- utilizing the resources already in place?

My vantage point was somewhere between the island universes, out in intergalactic space.