"He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in."

I'm currently engrossed in Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The lathe of heaven', constantly reminded of what she said in the introduction to 'The left hand of darkness': "I write science fiction, and science fiction isn’t about the future."

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