When the white-hot steel of the ax head met the frigid interior of the monster, something had to give way.

The Call of Blood THE SUN WAS not long risen over the saw-edged mountains to the east, but already the heat was glazing the cloudless sky to the hue of white-hot steel.

The massive, armored doors sealing the oval opening from the hangar deck to the port-side elevator were smashed, erupting inward in a spray of white-hot, molten steel.

The first splash of that white-hot steel would start the scalding doom of The Shadow's helpless agents!

Light, a light so hard and white that it seemed almost solid, or at best as slow-moving as glacier ice, glowed behind the test-ports, seemed to turn the narrow line of the calibration bar to white-hot steel.

Then in the spring of 4851, Darel's heart stopped beating while he was hammering at a piece of white-hot steel in his smithy.

A tiny globule of white-hot steel splashed against his leg, raising a blister underneath his uniform.

Two minutes later there was just a blistered, white-hot steel and aluminium hulk sizzling in the water, where once the mighty tanker had been.

Every place where anything touched him now felt as though it was covered with white-hot steel.

Bars of light like white-hot steel flew from his fists to more.