“But what I’d never anticipated was what we found. Earth under the thumb of super-aliens nobody has even seen... and look what came hurtling out to meet us, even before we’d got through the orbit of Pluto.” She shook her head at the memory. “A patch of Earth, untimely ripped from England and hurled into space; a few dozen skinny humans clinging to it desperately.”
-Timelike Infinity, Ch. 4