Management’s never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management’s true agenda has always been making things… - Adam-Troy Castro

They all wore the slack-bored expression of folks doomed to spend all of eternity on an infinitely long supermarket checkout line.

He’d played me very well. He’s sensed my misanthropy, and played up that aspect of his own personality. He’d even accused the Porrinyards of the same failing. But was that just the typical gamesmanship of a habitual manipulator, or the obfuscation of a sociopath?

You want to know why humanity’s never been involved in a serious interspecies conflict? Because it’s like going out to eat when you have a pantry full of food at home. Why bother sampling the buffets elsewhere when we haven’t worked out all the great ways to kill each other yet?