Quote of the Day

Of course governments weren't too happy with their tax-payers stepping out of reach. But only Iran, Burma, and the United Kingdom had ever actually tried to ban stepping. Initially most governments in the free world adopted some equivalent of the US aegis plan, demanding sovereignty of their country's footprint down all endless worlds. The French, for example, declared that all the French footprints were available for colonization by anybody who wanted to be French, and was prepared to accept a carefully put together document which outlines what being French meant. It was a brave idea, slightly let down by the fact that despite a nationwide debate it appeared that no two Frenchmen could agree exactly on what being French did mean. Although another school of thought held that arguing about what made you French was part of what made you French.

- TERRY PRATCHETT AND STEPHEN BAXTER, The Long Earth (Canada, USA, Europe)