“Poor little warrior, science will never invent anything to assist the titanic death you want in the contra-terrene caverns of your fee-fi-fo-fumblingly fearful id!”

—  Brian W. Aldiss

“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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