Colonial Union diplomat Hart Schmidt is back home for Harvest Day
celebrations - to a family whose members wonder whether its youngest son
isn't wasting his life clinging to the lowest rung of the CU's
diplomatic ladder. When his father, a legendarily powerful politician,
presents him with a compelling offer, Schmidt has to take stock of his
life and career.
"This Must Be the Place" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human
Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set
in the Old Man's War universe.