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"The preparations for the attack on the Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (IAC) began almost immediately after the Battle for 9UY." Description of a vast in-game operation by an EVE player;
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"I also started with the assumption that all fiction is speculative. That all fiction is an attempt to make a model of reality and any model of reality is necessarily speculative because it's gen
"Your question: at which step in this narrative would my 1977-era audience first say "you've got to be shitting me!" ... and when would they start moaning and holding their head in thei
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