Don't you start. It's bad enough that one of us feels he could have done more. We're human, Campion-that's all it boils down to. Human and not nearly as clever as we thought we were when it counted. End of story. When they put up the gravestone for our species, that'll be the epitaph. (Alastair Reynolds)

Don't you start. It's bad enough that one of us feels he could have done more. We're human, Campion-that's all it boils down to. Human and not nearly as clever as we thought we were when it counted. End of story. When they put up the gravestone for our species, that'll be the epitaph.

Alastair Reynolds

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