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I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.

Erica Brown

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Erica Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 7
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