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“Bishop Augustine lived, as you know,” the lecture continued, “while Rome’s imperial power crumbled, the set decrees falling away. By this time, the growing population was Christian but barely so, and any fresh rules were yet to be firmly recognized. But now, in every locale, new Christian princes wished to war with other Christian princes, a troubling obstacle if you’re a diligent churchman busy building a religion based on peace and love.”
― S. A. Gibson, 2023 SciFi Anthology

“They were hopelessly caught in a mire of pretty words, which they seemed to believe themselves.”
― Ray Bradbury, The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 70 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Tales

“Think about this, drunk comes in four parts, jocose, morose, bellicose, comatose.”
― Harlan Ellison, Again, Dangerous Visions

“winning The Three-Body Problem and edited Invisible Planets, the first English-language anthology of Chinese SF from the 21st century.”
― Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy