Those wanderers must have looked on Earth circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Suns children.
Arthur C. Clarke
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But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.
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The Devil in the Dark impressed me because it presented the idea unusual in science fiction then and now that something weird and even dangerous need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of todays politicians have yet to learn.
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