The mystery of it gets me. The builders of the trilithons a… - Jack Williamson

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The mystery of it gets me. The builders of the trilithons and the road were high-tech wizards, but their skills didn’t save them. I’ve been wondering how they died. Maybe they got too good at the science of war.

Jack Williamson

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John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer.

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Also Known As: Jack

Alternative Names: John Stewart Williamson • Will Stewart • Nils O. Sunderland • Nils O. Sonderlund

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Creation.…
It is its own nemesis. Success is temporary, and idolization will not make the ephemeral permanent. Decay is implicit in the birth of any organism.
An empire is an organism.

And introvert is one of the harmless scientific terms he used to use when he was really writing about witches.

The vampire legend, he might conclude, has served conveniently for many thousand years as a conventional folk expression of unconscious feelings of aggression and guilt.

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