““What happened?”
“Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?” She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.”

Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 15 (p. 255)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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