He had a broad forehead. Long, lank black hair hung in thick strands on either side of his face, strands like dead snakes attached by their teeth to his scalp. Pale skin, sunken cheeks, and a hooked nose. Thin lips were drawn back to reveal
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“But the Russians tried to explode the idea. They said at the time it was just a smokescreen to cover the preparations of war-mongers,” I pointed out. “That,” said Tuny, “wasn’t even subtle. It’s their regular technique to get in the first accusation against someone else of what they are doing themselves.”
― The Kraken Wakes
― The Kraken Wakes
“Very well, then if it could not have evolved on earth, it must have evolved somewhere else—say, on a large planet where the pressures were normally very high. If so, how did it cross space and arrive here?”
― The Kraken Wakes
― The Kraken Wakes
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