Adam Roberts Quotes

I Have A Problem,' Said Nikolai Nikolaivitch Asterinov, Getting To His Feet. 'I Have A Problem, That I Wish To Share With This, Our Science Fiction Writers' Collective. We Are To Concoct A Race Of Aliens Against Which Humanity Can Unite. Spacefaring Aliens, No?' 'Yes, Of Course.' 'Then This Is My Problem. We Know The Party Line. The Philosophy Of The Party Has Always Been That Capitalistic Western Fantasies Of Launching Rockets To Other Planets Will Always Be Doomed By The Internal Contradictions Of The Competitive Inefficiency Of Capitalism Itself. Only The Combined And Unified Effort Of A Whole People Would Be Able To Achieve So Monumental An Achievement As Interstellar Flight. No Capitalist Race Could Ever Achieve Something As Sophisticated As Interstellar Flight; Only Communists Could Do This. Now, How Can It Be That These Evil Aliens Are Able To Build Spaceships And Fly Across The Void? Surely They Are Not Communists?

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