"For a long time he stood gazing at the owl, who dozed on its perch. A thousand thoughts came into his mind, thoughts about the war, about the days when owls had fallen from the sky; he remembered how in his childhood it had been discovered that species upon species had become extinct and how the 'papes had reported it each day - foxes one morning, badgers the next, until people had stopped reading the perpetual animal obits." ---Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)