Starter Villain by John Scalzi

"Maybe I'm just better with cats than people, and cats seem to know that."

"That's the toxoplasmosis talking"

I laughed out loud.


Amusing romp through a high-tech world where one evil genius has created sentient animals: namely cats and dolphins.  The dolphins are aggrieved because they are trapped into working for "the man" (they cannot integrate themselves back into wild, unaltered podds).  The cats are....management.  They are fine.


""Has he?"

"Passed on?"

"Yes."

"He was dead when he arrived here," Chesterfield said.

"Do you expect that condition to change?"

"It would be unusuual if it did."

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