“Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same.”

— Norman Spinrad , book The Void Captain's Tale

Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 7 (p. 82)

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American science fiction writer and critic 1940

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