“Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.”

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3

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Novelist, short story writer 1896–1975

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