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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
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