“Here, the enemy was not merely another group of human beings with a differing political persuasion; the enemy here was death.”

—  Philip K. Dick , book Clans of the Alphane Moon

Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (pp. 69-70)

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