It should be illegal to be so much younger than me. - China Miéville

We're all racing," he said. "Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction.

We want the same thing, you and me. If we can mess with them, everyone’s happy. Except them. Which is the point, right?”

But Isaac’s research-unchanged in its aims over all those years-could not proceed in a vacuum. He had to publish. He had to debate. He had to argue, to attend conferences-as the rogue, the rebellious son. There were great advantages to renegacy.