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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
Death
Come
Trying
Shrugged
Heads
Kill

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