He could still sense the young woman close by, and felt no change in the plan mapped out in the cosmic game of life.
They both liked the world, for one thing, rather than viewing it simply as the board on which the cosmic game of chess was being played.
But as the final minutes ticked away, he realized that those who controlled him could not always predict the outcome of their cosmic game.
Then Vishnu, the omniscient director of the cosmic game, staged a small comedy.
We're still too weak to hold our own in a wide-open cosmic game with the galactic races.
Whoever killed this man would be merely a pawn in a huge cosmic game.
Perhaps God plays dice within a cosmic game of complete law and order.
Each is named after a throw of the dice in the cosmic game of life.
Tradition, in this view, is only noise and distortion, a cosmic game of "telephone."
He knew the officer was just a pawn in a cosmic game, the war between good and evil.