"That was the way of the world: power would always be used, nation would subjugate nation, the weak would always be slaughtered. Everything else was pious self-delusion."
— Power

January 1, 1970

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Greg Egan, Chaff (originally published in Interzone #78, December 1993; reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, volume 11, edited by Gardner Dozois).