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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

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Jamais Cascio
Age: 123
Born: 1901
Born: January 1
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