Head On (Lock In, #2)

by John Scalzi

“Once you feed a cat tuna, it doesn’t go back to regular cat food. You try to feed that cat regular food now, it will just stare at you accusingly. And if you don’t produce the tuna, the cat will go and shit in your shoes.”

But of course not meaning harm isn’t the same as not doing harm.

Fast, cheap, and good, you get to pick two. The two you just picked are fast and good. Cheap has just left the building.”

This novel took me rather longer than usual to write, for a number of reasons but one big one being simply that 2017 was a raging trash fire of a year, filled with horrible people trying to do horrible things and often succeeding. It’s harder to bear down creatively when the world is burning.