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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
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| Municipal Darwinism | ||
| The process by which smaller towns were eaten by larger ones. |
Traction Cities rumbled across the landscape, seeking their natural prey - other cities.
| The little town was so close that he could see the antlike shapes of people running about on its upper tiers. How frightened they must be, with London bearing down on them and nowhere to hide! But he knew he mustn't feel sorry for them. It was natural that cities ate towns, just as the towns ate smaller towns and smaller towns snapped up the miserable static settlements. That was Municipal Darwinism, and it was the way the world had worked for a thousand years, ever since the great engineer Nikolas Quirke had turned London into the first traction city. |
| Technovelgy from Mortal Engines,
by Philip Reeve. Published by EOS in 2003 Additional resources -
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You know what they say - "it's a town-eat-town world."
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