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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

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Aaron Allston
Age: 53 †
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
Died: 2014
Died: February 27
Film Director
Game Designer
Novelist
Role-Playing Game Designer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Corsicana
Texas
Aaron Dale Allston
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles
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Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want. We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to. Thanks. Wedge & Tycho
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Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
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And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind. Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic. Excuse me! [hopping up to stand in his seat] Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty! I withdraw my objection.
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