I am nothing but a scientist of sufficiently advanced technology, which is to say a magician. - Adrian Tchaikovsky

I’m telling it now. And I’m trying to remember how it actually was. Not just how I remember remembering it. But memory is a hard disk that overwrites itself constantly.

MARKS: It’s not fair.
MARKS: Evolution isn’t about being fair. It’s about adapting to changing circumstances.

And wasn’t the planet supposed to die? Wasn’t that the deal about human-generated climate change? That the world was supposed to predecease us? I mean, that certainly seemed to be what we’d agree to. That, okay, we’d destroy everything, but that was fine just so long as the last thing to get destroyed was us. And here's all this. Flourishing. Fucking flourishing in the death zone. Heat-adapted in a way we could never be.