“Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution.”

— Jack McDevitt , book The Hercules Text

Source: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 19)

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American novelist, Short story writer 1935

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