The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch… - Ian McDonald

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The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch and the tension wound tight around Corporation Plaza. Rael Mandella Jr., sweating in his father’s best championship suit, was horrified to realize how few of such brief five-minute periods went to make up a lifetime.

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Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist.

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Alternative Names: Ian Mcdonald • Ian Mc Donald • Ian Mac Donald • Ian Macdonald • Ian MacDonald • Ian James McDonald

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Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.

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Profit, Empire, Industry. What was a dead lake, a few poisoned rivers, a few slagged hillsides? Priorities, that was what it was about. Priorities and Progress.

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