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"Maybe we’ve been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf."
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"The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful."
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Hal Clement
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Harry Clement Stubbs, better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard.
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"If you want adventure, you made a mistake exploring space. The only space adventures Ive heard of are second-hand stories built on guesswork; the people who really had them werent around to tell about it."
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"[Clement] could imagine very alien worlds, but he could never imagine a protagonist who was not reasonably bright and open to logical persuasion."
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"What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?"
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"No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can’t see."
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"I am resigned to living in a chess-type universe—few and simple rules, but infinite combinations of them. But it would be nice to know an answer sometime."
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