"Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once. - Harry Turtledove

The men of the 47th North Carolina could not actually have looked across Washington to see the burning Long Bridge from the position in which I have them doing so. Geography occa sionally has to bend just a little to serve the novelist's needs.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" The artificial intelligence that ran the ship put no true inflection into its word, but Smith knew his polite query meant something more like: are you out of your ever-loving mind?

enough to the Stars and Stripes and different enough from