Institutional injustice explains academic piracy but does not absolve it. Piracy through shadow libraries remains wrong even where it is the lesser evil, and the greater evil is an arrangement in which those who write and those who read must both break the law for knowledge to reach its end. The…

Spores come down in the Sea of Corruption like snow that has forgotten how to melt, and a girl in a mask finds the cast-off shell of an Ohmu, lying in the moss with light coming through its old eye-lenses like glass. She knocks on it. It rings hollow.