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"We follow the scientists around and look over their shoulders. They're watching their feet: provable mistakes are bad for them. We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
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![]() In the novel, a space colony far distant from Earth has developed a political structure that is intertwined with the need to procure transplant organs from condemned prisoners.
Compare to dromozoa from A Planet Named Shayol (1961), by Cordwainer Smith.
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'A record that wouldn't get lost and couldn't be destroyed.'
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