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it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

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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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Rusty
Ruins
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