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unified world government prior to achieving FTL travel. They had responded with eagerness rather than hostility to first contact,
“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
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“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
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“In Rick’s experience, graphic artists were eternally unhappy–torn between genuine artistic talent and the demands of producers with all the aesthetic vision of a plundering Visigoth. The”
― Courier
― Courier
“You know I was never very good with violence.” “But you’re a ninja,” said Tia. “Ninja-slash-thief,” he replied. “Not ninja-slash-assassin. Similar basic training, but entirely different specializations. I don’t fight my way out of trouble. I disappear.” “That’s probably why they sent a ninja-slash-assassin to keep you from doing that,”
― The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
― The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
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