Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities. - Daniel Suarez

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People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

Daniel Suarez

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

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But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.

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We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

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Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

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My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

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When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

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