Whatever Happened to Targeted Marketing?

I got an insult in the mail, yesterday. It opens with the salutation "Dear Senior Citizen." It then makes a pitch for the company's Senior Final Expense Program. That is, burial insurance.

I'm not going to recycle this. I'm not going to shred this. I'm not even going to burn this. I'm going to _launch_ this.

Novel Excerpt

On an alien planet, the settlers explore an underground complex:



“It’s a hologram,” said Coulter, sounding relieved.
“I told you I saw something!” said Jeremy. “Let’s just hope they didn’t use gamma rays to see by...”
“Upright and bipedal,” said George. “How disappointing.”