"I always enjoyed blowing off steam in Berengi for a day or two, but by the third day I usually got to wishing I was back in the bush. Cities, even small ones like Berengi, didn’t appeal to me, and after a couple of days in town a hunter would come to realize that even though the safari business had never been better, he was on the way to becoming a walking anachronism. Cities are built by people who want a permanent home, and farms are worked by people who are tied to the land; those of us with wanderlust in our souls may be necessary in the beginning, but we’re just passing through. Some, like Fuentes, leave early, and some, like me, leave a little later, but eventually all of us leave. Every paved street, every house with a solid foundation, every cultivated piece of land, it’s just another nail in our coffins."
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Mike Resnick
Mike Resnick (March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. Resnick was nominated for 37 Hugo Awards and won five times; he won one Nebula Award from eleven nominations.
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