“That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”

— Larry Niven, book The Borderland of Sol

Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.”
The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

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