There are barbarians with battle axes and swords, robots with laser guns, spaceships, a warlock with a skull for a face.
—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
4 June 2026
In most academic histories of European imperialism written in this century, the Europeans are the barbarians, killing and raping and looting on an unprecedented scale.
—
David A. Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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