“No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.”

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 15)

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