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Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.
Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.
Approximate author period: c. 1991 AD · modern
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- Alastair Reynolds
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- Approximate author period: c. 1991 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Alastair Reynolds: documented activity in 1991. Wikidata Q380869, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380869 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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