“The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.”

— Alastair Reynolds , book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 30 (p. 467)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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