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““To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.” The””

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“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

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“She could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable…

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“As he left the hospital, he wasn’t scared. The only emotion he felt was loneliness. His alienation had been building up, but had been…

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“Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We’re trapped”

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I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to…

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“None of these is in line with your original ideal of using the alien civilization as a way to reform humanity. YE: I started…

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“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.”

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The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.

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“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later. What would…

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“Make time for life, or life won’t make time.”

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The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was exerted on…

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“Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther…

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