“I take small interest in politics,” he said. “The subject repels me.”

— Ken MacLeod , book Learning the World

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 232)

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Scottish science fiction writer 1954

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