Apparently this silent emptiness was a matter of course, now.

BEYOND the door was dark, silent emptiness.

Yet hanging there weightlessly in the silent emptiness of infinity, Dan felt free of all the world, alone with the cosmos, in tune with the ethereal music of the spheres.

All seven women descended the southward set of stairs, leaving behind a dusty, silent emptiness.

Roberts had sailed through the Asteroid Belt as if it weren't there, nothing but a vast silent emptiness, not a rock, not a pebble in sight.

Uhura glanced at the dark mouths of tunnels gaping in silent emptiness around them.

They want me to unseal the tomb, to enter, and to have my private moment in the cool silent emptiness that has replaced the warm presence that was Siri.

There was no hint of silent emptiness about the house this dawn.

Weightlessly they floated, intertwining, gliding through the silent emptiness.

The noise of the city, the filth, the crowdedness-all these were good to have again, after the silent emptiness up there.