The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)

by John Scalzi

think that’s a missile, is what Ghreni intended to say at that point, but he only got as far as saying “I,” and really only the very first phoneme of that very short word,

I only has one phoneme so wtf?

As far as Kiva could tell, whenever selfish humans encountered a wrenching, life-altering crisis, they embarked on a journey of five distinct stages: Denial. Denial. Denial. Fucking Denial. Oh shit everything is terrible grab what you can and run.

“Sophistry can be heuristically generated.” “So millennia of college sophomores have taught us, yes.”