“Maybe if you weren’t busy throwing rocks at each other, you could spend a little time on the other niceties of life, such as cooperation and mutual advancement.”

— Alastair Reynolds

Source: Short fiction, The Iron Tactician (2016), p. 630

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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