“What did you do, sir?” asked Bohr. “In your other life?”
“I
was a writer,” I said. They all looked
at each other. “What?” I asked.
“Strange
way to live, sir,” Mendel said. “To get
paid for stringing words together.”
“There
were worse jobs,” I said.
(from Old Man’s War
by John Scalzi)
9½*/10. The full review is here.
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