“You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened?”

—  Arthur C. Clarke, A Time Odyssey

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)

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