‘Well you mentioned first life, so let’s take panspermia. It’s just . . . unimaginative as a theory, you know?’ ‘You’re saying I’m unimaginative, Leigh?’ ‘No! I’m saying panspermia is. It’s boring. Why do people want to believe life came from somewhere else? Why are they so insistent on that? Like it’s supposed to be romantic? Why couldn’t life have begun here all along? Like we were saying the other night, Stefan – life is already alien, is already rich and strange – we don’t need to say it arrived seeded on a meteor to make it more so.’
