"Kolya believed that the Mongols’ expansion was pathological. It was a ghastly spiral of positive feedback, born of Genghis Khan’s unquestioned military genius and fueled by easy conquests, a plague of insanity and destruction that had spread across most of the known world."
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Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, Time's Eye (2003), Chapter 35 (p. 289 in the mass market paperback edition, )
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