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longship

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8. After all, it was Arthur C. Clarke who said...

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 05:34 PM

Apr 2018

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

In 2001, he puts that into the narrative.

And he's not the only SciFi writer who has done that.

My best to you.

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