Exemplary

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"A ghostly machine was taking shape upon the hard, pitted, frozen surface of the field... a crazy machine that glimmered weirdly in the half-light of the stars. A machine with mind-wrenching angles, with flashing prisms and spidery framework, a towering skeleton of a machine that stretched out spaceward."
-- from "Cosmic Engineers" by Clifford D. Simak

From when science fiction wasn't afraid of exclamation marks.