“ The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn’t have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark. Daniel Polansky
“ Next to her a calico cat puffed away at a hubble-bubble. Puss’s watch cost more than his vest, and his vest cost more than his boots, and his boots cost more than a house. If you stripped him naked an… Daniel Polansky
“ You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace. John Scalzi
