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Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the individual specks of street and building lights as though in recompense.
Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the individual specks of street and building lights as though in recompense.
Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern
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- Iain M. Banks
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- Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Iain Banks: documented activity in 1984. Wikidata Q312579, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312579 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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