Elizabeth Thon

“She’d headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau-yung’s flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the planet into submission while most of the colony fleet had waited, motionless, holding station in the depths of interstellar space, light-years from the nearest star.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“Milo glanced over Tobias’s glower and shrugged. “Suit yourself.”
― Jenna Moreci, The Savior's Champion

“the shadows of men with guns, always, long on the floor.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

“The atmosphere is thick with lust, the desperate rutting and grinding of would-be couples.”
― Loki Renard, Insatiable