A battering on the brass
knocker announced the belated arrival of Foxen Ellsworth-Howard, and the first
thing he said on entering was “It’s shracking freezing in here!”
Shrack was an extremely
nasty word, first coined to describe a particularly immoral act that had become
possible with twenty-second-century technology.
Ellsworth-Howard’s friends winced slightly, but only slightly.
(from The Life of
the World to Come by Kage Baker)
6½*/10.
The complete review is here.
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