Arthur C. Clarke book Breaking Strain
Breaking Strain, p. 170
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
“Every theory is true in some discipline.
The beauty of this is that it carries its own confirmation.”
— Gene Wolfe, book Starwater Strains
"In Glory like Their Star", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2001, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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