The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

ex-Marines.” Of whom there’s no shortage since they kicked us out of Asia.

The men’s room bore the sign of Aquarius, as the women’s did the sign of Virgo. Once when he first joined the company he’d raised a laugh clear around a group of his colleagues by suggesting that in the interests of true equality there should be only one door, marked Gemini. Today he wasn’t in a joking mood.

the hike in life insurance premiums we’re going to impose from January first. Of course we’ve always predicated our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has in fact started to go down.”

I wasted more of my life than I care to recall going around farms trying to discourage pig and chicken breeders from buying feeds that contained antibiotics, and they simply wouldn’t listen.

So developing new drugs to replace those wasted in cake for cattle, pap for pigs and pellets for pullets has become like the race between guns and armor!”

He was devoid of emotion—either that, or absolutely homosexual—

What an asshole