“The cover pirated the pictures on the Southern pamphlet and headlined a story whose title, “Invasion from Infinity!,” bore witness to a brash disdain of doing right as much as of blithe contempt for having been proved wrong.”

—  Ken MacLeod , book Learning the World

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 264)

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