
Fritz Leiber: Herrin der Dunkelheit (orig.: Our Lady Of Darkness, 1976), ins Deutsche übersetzt von Hans Maeter, München 1980, ISBN 3-453-30676-7, S. 67
"At any particular time in history there have always been one or two cities of the monstrous sort - viz., Babel oder Babylon, Ur-Lhassa, Niniveh, Syracuse, Rome, Samarkand, Tenochtitlan, Peking - but we live in the Megapolitan (or Necropolitan) Age, when such disastrous blights are manifold and threaten to conjoin and enshroud the world with funebral yet multipotent city-stuff." - '