“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“An understanding of the past is essential, for a humanity without a past is a humanity without roots or models, a self-involved humanity that flirts with its own destruction. Those who do not understand this will be incapable of dealing with the future.”
― EDEN - The Sumerian Version of Genesis
― EDEN - The Sumerian Version of Genesis
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― Empire's Gambit
― Empire's Gambit
“The Russians still hadn’t found their own source of valstronium. The discovery of the metal in rare asteroids at the very edge of the Sol system and, later, in”
― Stand Into Danger: An Empire Rising Novella
― Stand Into Danger: An Empire Rising Novella
Markus’s 2025 Year in Books
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