“It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.”

— Vernor Vinge , A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)

Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 18 (p. 228).

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American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fic… 1944

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