“You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all—and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell.”

—  Paolo Bacigalupi, book The Windup Girl

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 151

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1972

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