John Scalzi
7 Quotations from John Scalzi
| astrogator n. | 2012 Redshirts (2013) 175 ‘I have no idea where I’m going,’ Kerensky said. ‘You’re an astrogator,’ Duval said. ‘This is a road.’ |
| colony planet n. | 2013 Human Division x. 275 The Phoenix City Hub…aggregated most of the civilian mass transportation for the oldest and most populous city of the oldest and most populous human interstellar colony planet. |
| nanobot n. | 2006 Ghost Brigades (2007) xi. 253 Jared maneuvered himself to look at Arist and drank it in until his BrainPal, sensing the first tenuous effects of the atmosphere, wrapped him in a protective sphere of nanobots that flowed from a pack on his back and secured him in the middle, to keep him from making contact with the sphere and crisping himself where they intersected. |
| redshirt n. | 2012 Redshirts 288 Abnett smiled wryly. ‘So I get to be the redshirt on this one.’ |
| warp speed n. | 2012 Redshirts (2013) 174 When your friend is coherent tell him that if he shows up again, he’ll achieve warp speed thanks to my foot in his ass. |
| xeno- prefix | 2006 Ghost Brigades (2007) xi. 256 What few xenographical studies of the Obin had been done by humans or other races discovered that aside from a spare and utilitarian language, and a facility for practical technology, the Obin produced nothing of creative note: No significant art across any of their perceivable senses, no literature, no religion or philosophy that xenographers could recognize as such. |
| xenobiology n. | 2012 Redshirts (2013) 20 The Academy seemed like the best exit strategy. Spent four years there studying xenobiology and linguistics. |