extra-nationality

Updated: May 8, 2025

People who have only their knowledge and their ideas to sell are wary about bandying either loosely, and the six men and three women who faced each other across the twelve-foot diameter of the teakwood table had no other stock-in-trade. They were nine people of nine different nationalities, or they were nine people of the common extra-nationality of science.

H. Beam Piper - The Mercenaries