“There’s a lot here we don’t understand. Adding one more thing to the list doesn’t strike me as the worst crime imaginable.”

— Alastair Reynolds , book Pushing Ice

Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 10 (p. 164)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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