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Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and
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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck"

- Frederik Pohl

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USA Flag This quote is written / told by Frederik Pohl somewhere between November 26, 1919 and today. He/she was a famous Writer from USA. The author also have 19 other quotes.

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