“When Bobbie tried to imagine being so wealthy you could own a spaceship just to compete in races, she failed. That the same girl had run away to be an OPA rebel probably said a lot about the relationship of wealth and contentment, but Bobbie had a hard time being that philosophical.”

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 30 (pp. 329-330)

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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