It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised.

“The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executr…”

“That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody g…”

“And how did wethen face the odds, of man's rude slapstick, yes, and God's?Quite…”

“So it is not one whit mysterious that we poison the water and air and topsoil, …”