"Wait," said Val, with the caution of a science fiction writer. [Anthony Burgess, The End of the World News (1982), 348]Never a truer word spoken.
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1 comment:
Burgess does not deserve his current semi-obscurity … he always cranked out entertaining copy, at a minimum. End of the World News is an SF classic.
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