Delta-V (Delta-v, #1)

by Daniel Suarez

‘wanderlust gene,’ DRD4-7R.

“Launching evolution five

“It’s not because explorers like you weren’t willing to shoulder the risk. Instead it was a blindness among our leaders that prevented them from seeing the true risk. And yet on Earth, we spend a trillion dollars on war without blinking an eye. With each passing year, the chance of a global catastrophe mounts—the climate, an epidemic, a financial crash, or a war that shrouds Earth in space debris and prevents us from reaching space. Possibly ever again. Humanity’s future depends on going—now, not later.

This has always been the purpose of people like us. We blaze trails. We chart oceans. We push back frontiers. Without us, humanity slowly dies.”

You want to save lives? Fund a quit-smoking campaign.

But if we’re going to get humanity off this rock and into the cosmos, some people will need to go into harm’s way—and fortunately, there are people willing to take up that solemn responsibility. The least you can do is fulfill your responsibility to help keep them alive!”

The difficult work of effecting repairs allowed them to concentrate on the present, to work to exhaustion, followed by sound sleep.

If you have any chance to make Earth, you will need to remain focused

Emotion comes later.”