Lock In (Lock In, #1)

by John Scalzi

“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.’”

“We have a right to assemble—” Washington/Swope began, clearly winding himself up. “Oh, Jesus, don’t,” Vann said. “It’s too early in the fucking A.M. for your brand of pathetic patriotic bullshit.”

“Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?” Vann asked. “She did not,” I said. “It may have been implied.” “What do you think?”

“I don’t think you set puppies on fire,” I said.

I looked at it and then looked at the threep. “Are you kidding me?” I said. My threep’s body was carbon fiber and graphene. A knife was gonna do dick to it.