“It’s a sorry excuse for a government anyway. It always gets back to the same old thing, power suckers sucking power.”

—  Kim Stanley Robinson

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 750)

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American science fiction writer 1952

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