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"...a few centuries of coherent humanist thought, set against a million odd years of evolved killer ape tendency. No-one's going to give you very good odds on humanism, are they?"
- Richard Morgan
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| Booklegger | ||
| A smuggler of books. |
| Don burst out, "The whole thing is silly! If the Federation wasn't trying to bleed Venus white there wouldn't be any war talk."
Principal Reeves stood up. "That will be all, Don. I'm not going to argue politics with you." "It's true! Read Chamberlain's Theory of Colonial Expansion!" Reeves seemed startled. "Where did you lay hands on that book? Not in the school library." Don did not answer. His father had sent it to him but had cautioned him not to let it be seen; it was one of the suppressed books—on Earth, at least. Reeves went on, "Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger? |
| Technovelgy from Between Planets,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1951 Additional resources -
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Thanks to Winchell Chung (@nyrath) for tweeting the quote.
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