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| So, I hear you're going to be at Worldcon. | |
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| Aye. Apparently, my cross-genre science fiction ghost story, "Interstellar Medium", was nominated for a Hugo Award. | |
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| Oh, they made a category for Absurd Horseshit? | |
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| My novel, albeit fiction, is based on mathematically sound theories of the interstellar void proposed by respectable astrophysicists. | |
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| "Then," the old man rasped, "Alzsc'Dwhrisch, Foucault pendulum in hand, will emerge. He will rend his cyclopean beak and, in the vacuum, sing the hymn that disproves the third law of thermodynamics." | |
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| Okay, granted, some of them were high at the time. | |
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