“But now she was fifty-seven, and suddenly ancient. Soon she would be dead. Dead. You can’t get any more ancient than that.”

—  John Varley, book The Ophiuchi Hotline

Source: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

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