“It couldn’t happen! Hoddan couldn’t conceive of such a thing. But a recently developed pessimism suggested that since everything else, to date, had been to his disadvantage, this was probably a catastrophe also.”

—  Murray Leinster, book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 5

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Novelist, short story writer 1896–1975

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