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The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.

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Paul Cornell
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 18
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Chippenham
Wiltshire
Paul Douglas Cornell
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