“Owning your own racing ship wasn’t even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh’s pyramid with a reaction drive.”

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 30 (p. 330)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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