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Men thought of war—always the next one—as a great cleansing, as the last war that ever need to be fought. But it was not so, I could see now: men fou… - Stephen Baxter
" "Men thought of war—always the next one—as a great cleansing, as the last war that ever need to be fought. But it was not so, I could see now: men fought wars because of the legacy of the brute inside them, and any justification was a mere rationalization supplied by our oversized brains.
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About Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter (born November 13, 1957) is a British science fiction writer.
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Stephen Michael Baxter
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