Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
Scott WesterfeldIf you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
Scott WesterfeldShe couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
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