“The final product is a man-plant-animal symbiote that is admirably adapted for survival on this disaster world. No emotions to cause complications or desires that might interfere with pure survival. Complete ruthlessness—mankind has always been strong on this anyway, so it didn’t take much of a push.”

—  Harry Harrison , book Planet of the Damned

Source: Planet of the Damned (1962), Chapter 15

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