He tasted the ambience of a body of water, overlaid by a faint flavor of alien metal.

Or was the alien metal strong enough to - Mike made a strangling noise.

My skin, acclimated to the nearness of the alien metal, no longer shrank upon my bones.

Recalling the cold bite of the alien metal, almost I wanted to take it from her and touch my flesh with its own.

His target was a patch of alien metal on the machine's side that had softened to extrude one of its tentacles.

It's an alien metal of some kind--an alloy resistant to probe.

Because of the nearly invulnerable nature of the alien metal discovered, the scientists needed some way to cut it in order to perform experiments.

One day he discovers a container with a mysterious alien metal he dubs "animetal."

Your puny laser guns wouldn't even scratch the alien metals.

And, at first, Damia did ascribe it to the alien metal.