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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Littles
Risking
Find
Fish
Little
Fishes
Everything
Piece
Even
Pieces
Hell
Knowing
Heaven
Godhood

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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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