“The extremists in his movement had discredited themselves thoroughly, and it would be a long time before the world heard of them again.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Guardian Angel, p. 220
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

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