Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure.

FORBES: Introducing A Science Fiction Book Club

IR Americans are rarely shy to point out that their nation, conceived in revolution against an occupying colonist, stands alone as the world's strongest representative of individual rights and self-determination.

ECONOMIST: Middle East divided

That answers the colonist type of question.

NEWYORKER: The State of Sarah Palin

Ever since 1718, when Jean Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, a French colonist, decided to build his settlement on a hurricane-prone patch of swampland surrounded by three huge pools of water (the Mississippi Delta, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain), New Orleans has been living in nature's shadow.

ECONOMIST: Hurricane Katrina