“There was life out there. They had proof of it now. And the proof came in the shape of a weapon, so what did that tell him?”

—  Daniel Abraham

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 38 (p. 379)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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