“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.” FormSpacePlanetsSceneHorseScience FictionMereShoesStuckSci FiCosmicConventionsHumiliationSpace TravelCrabsPrehistory Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES