Book Excerpt for the Day

    "You've all been living under the threat for so long that you can't wake up to the fact that it isn't there any more," he said.  "You've been hooked on missiles and bombs for as long as you can remember, and the idea of getting along without them just doesn't get through.  It's over.  Can't you get that into your heads?  We don't need it any more - any of it.  Everything that the West has publicly claimed to want for the last fifty years has happened.  Doesn't it occur to you that we might be able to do something constructive with all those armaments budgets now?"


(from The Genesis Machine by James P. Hogan)


4½*/10.  The complete review is here.