“Human worlds are always awash in superstition, only a stubborn elite proof against it.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 34, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 306)

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American fiction writer 1929–2016

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