Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

by Catherynne M. Valente

Life is beautiful and life is stupid.

“Road Runner,” mumbled the ultimate glamgrind messiah of the late 2010s, still not entirely amenable to having this conversation that would not stop having him.

I’ll put this in words you can understand: humans are hideous, pain-guzzling, pollution-spouting space monsters who might threaten our way of life.

What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your general health at two in the afternoon.