The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)

by John Scalzi

I caught up with Jane, who had stopped to study a tree thing.

“Appears to be a tree to me,” he said. “With fur. We might call it a fur tree.”

humanity has another bulwark against racial extinction at the hands of a callous universe.

“I’ve been to the afterlife. Coming back from that’s not a problem. It’s life you don’t get over.”

get off my boat.”

detonated them in a sequence determined by him to have the greatest aesthetic impact.

“It’s just a short jump from that to having the right to space those who annoy you.”

“Apparently there’s an advantage around here to being mildly socially retarded, and that’s the Special Forces for sure.”