“One light-year is not much as galactic distances go. You could walk it in about 270 million years, beginning at the middle of the Permian Era, when dinosaurs belonged to the remote future, and continuing to the present day.”

The Queen of Air and Darkness (p. 43)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926–2001

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