“In this marginal land accurate information was at a premium; to know the land was to prosper, not to know it meant starvation, and experts were a lot more valuable than bosses.”

—  Stephen Baxter, book Evolution

Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 13 “Last Contact” section I (pp. 406-407)

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