We underestimated the vindictiveness of mankind. Their retr… - Stephen Baxter

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We underestimated the vindictiveness of mankind. Their retrospective tribunals. Their visiting of punishments on the children of the perpetrators. They never forgave us.

Stephen Baxter

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Stephen Baxter (born November 13, 1957) is a British science fiction writer.

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Alternative Names: Stephen Michael Baxter

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In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds
Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse—
In the chthonic silence—
All that could have been done had been done.
In peace and satisfaction, minds diffuse and antique submitted to the End Time.

The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.

Anyhow, that’s our story. And I think, in my glimpses of the great encompassing mechanism that has shaped us all, I’ve seen a little of the numinous. That’s enough of God for me.

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