But in the thousands of systems where life had solved the complex problem of defying entropy, there were only so many shapes. Sometimes weird shit wa… - James S. A. Corey

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But in the thousands of systems where life had solved the complex problem of defying entropy, there were only so many shapes. Sometimes weird shit was going to look familiar. An enemy alien was going to look like a tree or a vulva or a bird because there were too many things and not enough room in design space for all of them. ...
Maybe the wars were about that as much as anything. Who got to keep what shapes. Who got to define what they meant.