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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
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Literary
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Science Fiction Writer
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E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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