Because we knew that as soon as anyone actually used a time machine with hostile intent, that would be it.”― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours About And just like the nukes of an earlier era, by the time the war started, everyone had them, and everyone had signed a lot of important pieces of paper swearing they wouldn’t use them. But time machines really are the ultimate sanction. City-devouring intercontinental missiles and orbital railgun strikes: these things are on a straight line of development from slings and thrown rocks. Even nukes are just a better way of killing people that leaves a longer-lasting stain on the carpet. “People have described a lot of things as an ultimate weapon, a doomsday measure, a holiday at the final resort. One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky Book Reviews The War Will Not Happen Again
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