Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.