Thera-Da: The Truth of the Universe

"To live, you must kill. We can be as moral as we want, but the calories have to come from somewhere and humans can't eat stone." "The thrill of the forty stars reached our fingers, began turning our skin transparent, squeezed terror and exhaustion into our trembling hearts" 'We could have stayed on our rickety little stations... It might have even been a good life,' she says.'But how far will we go? The line between greed and necessity is a thin one', he writes.