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It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
Stanley Schmidt
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Stanley Schmidt
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 7
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Science Fiction Writer
Cincinnati
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Stanley Albert Schmidt
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