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Maura pulled an elaborate face. “Don’t these people realize the cat is already out of the bag? You can’t control the public’s access to information anymore—and you certainly can’t control their response. Nor should you try, in my opinion.”

— Stephen Baxter Space (2000)

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The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.

Time (1999)

The universe aged: indifferent, harsh, hostile and ultimately lethal.

Origin (2001)

A pinch of observation is worth a mountain of hypothesis.

Origin (2001)

Your flexibility of mind is impressive, for a man of your evolutionary era.

The Time Ships (1995)

As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn’t worth a grain of good hard fact.

Space (2000)

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