“The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.”

“The Autumn Land” (p. 250); originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1971
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)

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American writer, journalist 1904–1988

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