Kim Stanley Robinson on History
born 1952 United States
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One could not overshoot a planet’s carrying capacity without disaster following—that was what Earth’s history since the nineteenth century existed to prove.
Blue Mars (1996)
Well, societies without a plan, that was history so far; but history so far had been a nightmare, a huge compendium of examples to be avoided.
Red Mars (1992)
History till now has been like women's periods, a little egg of possibility, hidden in the ordinary material of life, with tiny barbarian hordes maybe charging in, trying to find it, failing, fighting each other—finally a bloody mess ends that chance, and everything has to start all over.
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)