“Amazing how much we’ve managed to do, considering how we’re doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene.”

— Daniel Abraham

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 31 (p. 325)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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