It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion… - Andrew J. Offutt

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It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion: doers conquering parasites and taking over! At the time I left America/Earth—well, skip it. You don’t need me to tell you that those of us who worked and paid taxes were slaves to those who didn’t.

Andrew J. Offutt

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About Andrew J. Offutt

Andrew J. Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and erotic fiction author.

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Pen Names: John Cleve • Turk Winter

Alternative Names: Andy Offutt • Andrew Jefferson Offutt V • Andrew Offutt • Andrew Jefferson Offutt • Jeff Douglas • John Denis • Jeff Morehead • Farrah Fawkes • Baxter Giles • John X. Williams • J. X. Williams • Andrew J. Black-Offutt • Alan Marshall

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I always thought Man might have grown up if Freud and Darwin and Havelock Ellis had lived before Napoleon and Watt and Marco Polo. And the schlemiel who invented gunpowder.

I’d have been better off of course, just to have gone along, to have accepted. But as I have pointed out I am not built that way. I kept asking why.

In a “barbarian” society (or in any society, in wartime), the conquerors naturally rape ever woman in sight. Not even the stern old lonely god of the children of Abraham frowned on that practice!

It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion: doers conquering parasites and taking over! At the time I left America/Earth—well, skip … - Andrew J. Offutt

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