“It did not seem at all improbable to McCulloch now. The infinite fullness of time brings about everything, he thought: even intelligent lobsters, even a divine octopus.”

— Robert Silverberg

Short fiction, Homefaring (1983)

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American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935

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