“The death rate is the same for us as for anybody … one person, one death, sooner or later.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book Tunnel in the Sky

Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Captain Helen Walker, Ch. 2

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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