"I have thought a little about a telepathic community, and I have decided that it would most likely create either a thoroughly paranoiac or a thoroughly homogeneous unit of individuals. Complete suspicion and hostility in the one instance, total harmony and concord in the other. I do not like either alternative."
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Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 35)
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Michael Bishop
Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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