“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

—  Sherwood Smith , book The Fox

The Fox (Inda #2, 2007)

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American fantasy and science fiction writer 1951

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