Lord, that war was crazy!" "All wars are," said Drummond di… - Poul Anderson

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Lord, that war was crazy!"
"All wars are," said Drummond dispassionately. "but technology advanced to the point of giving us a knife to cut our throats with. Before that, we were just beating our heads against the wall. Robinson, we can't go back to the old ways. We've got to start on a new track—a track of sanity.

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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was a prominent American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.

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Birth Name: Poul William Anderson

Alternative Names: Winston P. Sanders • A. A. Craig • Michael Karageorge • Petronius Arbiter Kingsley • P. A. Kingsley

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