Earthgirl? the guard repeated. She didn't look like an Earthie.

The Tristanians were to occupy some fifty neat modern houses in the former Married Quarters inside the high-fenced compound.

The sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented, to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.

Hold on, I gotta use the shitter.