<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> the editor was probably too busy coming up with a title that would sound enough like "Guns, Germs and Steel".</p><p>(I recently noticed how Game of Thrones ("A Song of Ice and Fire") led to a deluge of fantasy books called "An X of Y and Z". Perhaps the monomaniac-history-rewriting genre has a pattern of "Xa, Xb and Y"!)</p>
