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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.

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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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Heads
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Death
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Trying

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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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