Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
Scott WesterfeldI'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
Scott WesterfeldTypographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
Scott WesterfeldI know what itโs like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what itโs like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. Weโve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So donโt try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras
Scott WesterfeldThe lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
Scott Westerfeld"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,โ David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."
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