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SF isn't a genre SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

Larry Niven

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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
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Laurence van Cott Niven
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