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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

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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
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Enough
Sometimes
Carnage
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Amid
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Rules
Minds
Broken
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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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