“Now we’re getting somewhere, George told himself, although he sensed that this situation would not endure.”

Source: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 4, “In Which Our Hero Is Asked to Sign a Most Unusual Sales Contract” (p. 43)

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(1947-) science fiction author 1947

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