"We, the proper civil government, approved your defense measures of the past several years, though you are aware that I myself always considered them excessive. When I think of the prosperity that tax money, those resources, could have brought, left in private handsâor the social good it could have done in the public sectorâ Give you military your heads, and youâd build bases in the fourth dimension to protect us against an invasion from the future."
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Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 â July 31, 2001) was a prominent American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.
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