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"I realized there was a heavy-duty change coming in biology, and I could write a really compelling novel about catastrophic evolution, punctuated equilibrium."
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![]() This is the first use of this great phrase.
This phrase is also used in Raid on Valkyr (1950) by Alfred Koppel:
“Where do you go now, Valkyr?”
Kieran felt a stab of suspicion. How much did Landor know? Had his spies pierced Freka the Unknown’s counter-espionage cordon and brought word of the star-kings gathering on Kalgan?
Ridley Scott also uses this phrase in Blade Runner, although I don't think Philip K. Dick uses it in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep:
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