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1985
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Ellie Arroway
Mr. Weisbrod
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Helga Bork
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Locus (First Novel, 1986)
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008 Edition)
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For Alexandra,
who comes of age
with the Millennium.
May we leave your generation a world
better than the one we were given.
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By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.
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She found what she had been searching for.
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