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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
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