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Book cover for Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga #4)
Leo moved to another port for a view back toward the hub of the station’s wheel, noting the stress points and wondering when they’d last been x-rayed for secretly propagating flaws.
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Hmm, anachronistic?
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Beginner's error in scifi — assume that any contemporary technology will be obsolete! That makes the job of doing 'hard' scifi more difficult, of course.
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Winston S. Churchill
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Winston S. Churchill

Edgar Allan Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

H.L. Mencken
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
H.L. Mencken

Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire

Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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