"“I wonder…” said Rawls. “What do you wonder?” “If he wasn’t happier before we arrived. Maybe his kingdom was just a tree and a patch of bare ground, but his word was law and he took orders from no one.” “Of course he was happier before we arrived,” she said irritably. “Just as Men were happier when all they had to do was fill their bellies and keep warm and dry. They didn’t have neuroses, they didn’t fight wars, they didn’t worry about nonessentials.” She paused. “But on the other hand, they lost more than half their children in infancy, they succumbed to every disease that came around, they had no language, no history, no art—and they were hunted by everything that was bigger and stronger. They may have been happier, but they weren’t better off. You learn to take the bad with the good, Linus.” “I suppose so,” he agreed. “But it does lead to another question.” “Oh?” “Which are we—the bad or the good?” “That all depends,” said Violet. “On what?” “On who writes the history books.”"
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Mike Resnick
Mike Resnick (March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. Resnick was nominated for 37 Hugo Awards and won five times; he won one Nebula Award from eleven nominations.
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