Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 313
“Along the way she’d acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents—God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical joke (the Eschaton didn’t count, having explicitly denied that it was a deity)—and that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.”
— Charles Stross, book Iron Sunrise
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 18, “Grateful Dead” (p. 294)
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