“Right now, Megan wished her superpower was telepathy so she could silently shout at Cam to shut up.”

“The lone superpower can bribe, bully, or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes.”

“Unfortunately, the alternative to a single superpower is not a multilateral utopia but the anarchic nightmare of a new Dark Age.”

“Rollback was the American end of the proxy war fought between the two superpowers for power and influence in the developing world.”

“Another was submarine-launched ballistic missiles as a part of the nuclear deterrent of the superpowers.”

“Yet both superpowers thought of it as another territory to compete over in a global game of go.”