“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”

—  Philip José Farmer , book Venus on the Half-Shell

Venus on the Half-Shell (December 1974); written using the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, with the permission of Kurt Vonnegut.

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American science fiction writer 1918–2009

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