“Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?”

—  Brian W. Aldiss

“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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British science fiction author 1925–2017

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