The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

by John Scalzi

More people on that single globe, in fact, than existed on all the human colonies combined.

But they weren’t born for it,:: Brahe said. ::Those people you saw—the realborn—are born without a plan.

After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn’t really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die.

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can’t say that’s all that matters to everyone, but it’s what matters to me.”

“I didn’t say that,” Szilard said, in a tone that implied that perhaps he had.

which featured suns and cats and hills with flowers in pictures that were not art unless you were a parent and could be nothing but if you were.

The earliest graves in the cemetery dated back to the early days, when Metairie was a line of plastic and mud buildings, and proud Louisianans had settled there with the pretensions of its being Clinton’s first suburb.