“What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?”

— Norman Spinrad , book The Void Captain's Tale

Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 189)

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American science fiction writer and critic 1940

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