" Bhawardwaj squints as she reads the message, and she laughs. “I don’t even know what that is.” Ayda looks at the catalog image. It’s the thing that fits on a backpack or harness, and has giant extendable spikes. She sends back, All right, I believe that it’s real, but it doesn’t look very practical. "

― Martha Wells , Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)