Now, you know I’m no bigot, Lorie. I don’t care how many ey… - Robert Silverberg

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Now, you know I’m no bigot, Lorie. I don’t care how many eyes, tentacles, eating orifices, or antennae an organism happens to have, so long as it knows its stuff. What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.

Robert Silverberg

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Robert Silverberg (born 15 January 1935) is a prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

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Pen Names: Dozens • Walker Chapman • John Dexter • Franklin Hamilton • Paul Hollander • Calvin M. Knox • Lloyd Robinson • Lee Sebastian • Robert Randall

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“I know. That’s why I don’t want to get up.”

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What counts is what’s happening inside him, his own artistic fulfillment. If he can blow their skulls, that’s a bonus. But this is ecstasy. The whole universe is vibrating around him. A gigantic solo. God himself must have felt this way when he got to work on the first day.

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