Jeffrey Carey’s Reviews > Old Man's War > Status Update

Oh.

Was the ship that pioneered the skip drive named the “Event Horizon,” by any chance?

Wait, they were on a site infested with *alien slime mold* and nobody thought to shield their face? You’d do that with a *terrestrial* mold infestation of this scale, let alone an alien one. This guy was an idiot.

Dang. The Consu would give even the Adeptus Astartes a hard time.

That expression loses so much of its utility when you realize that H.P. Lovecraft would also have “run screaming” from an ordinary penguin (this is not a joke).

I get the sense Higgee’s being less than honest about what’s going on.

I was startlingly premature in my previous assessment. It stopped being the case halfway down the page. Not even the High Lords have it this good.

Getting real “Imperium of Man” vibes from this (and not in a good way)