About This Book
The story follows a prominent scientist who has abandoned a secret biological-warfare laboratory to become a truck farmer and sends choice produce to former colleagues. Former associates visit to learn why he quit and to try to persuade him to return as they debate the moral cost of weapons research and speculate that technological escalation might ultimately collapse civilization into primitive warfare. Their arrival reveals an uncanny farm: oddly hued soil, unusually vigorous crops, a gaunt, asthmatic farmhand, and a massive tank truck, while the farmer himself appears aged and frail. Underlying the narrative is an ethical and speculative question about whether human choices can alter probabilistic paths that seem to make catastrophic futures inevitable.
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