"The attack should not have happened, of course. The rice farmer sergeant had been perfectly right; the Federation could not afford to risk its own great cites to punish the villagers of Venus. He was rightâfrom his viewpoint. A rice farmer has one logic; the men who live by and for power have another and entirely different logic. Their lives are built on tenuous assumptions, fragile as reputation; they could not afford to ignore a challenge to their powerâthe Federation could not afford not to punish the insolent colonists."
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Chapter 10, âWhile I Was Musing the Fire Burnedâ (p. 113)
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Robert A. Heinlein
writer, screenwriter, literary critic
1907 â 1988 ¡ United States
Robert Anson Heinlein (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.
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