“For her, this was a metaphor, he reminded himself. Though maybe he was a metaphor too, inside his head with the Black Gang. A metaphor gone metastatic.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold , Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

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