“And now each second was as long as all the time before.”

Prologue (p. 4).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Context: The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.

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American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fic… 1944

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