Sort of. I still need to talk to Racetrack, but... [He hesitates, takes a breath. He hasn't talked about this with anybody yet, but he's gone to the library to see for himself, and what he'd found had been better than he'd even been hoping for.

He sounds, suddenly, a little more animated, a quiet controlled note of excitement entering his voice.] I don't know why we didn't think of it before. The library has millions of books, and they're completely beyond the scope of any one world. I don't know Earth well yet, but I know you don't have any volumes on-- I don't know, quantum robotics or exobiology, but I read both while I was... [A robot.] ...studying.

There are a hundred worlds represented here, so I thought... why not a dead one? Why not ours?