“Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 45 (p. 457)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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“Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.”

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