Random Thoughts » Literature http://peterleonhardt.com/blog A gathering place for ponderings Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:45:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Last Question http://peterleonhardt.com/blog/2007/01/30/the-last-question/ http://peterleonhardt.com/blog/2007/01/30/the-last-question/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:08:25 +0000 Pete http://peterleonhardt.com/blog/?p=7 This is the best sci-fi story I have read in a very long time, if not ever. You will not be dissapointed.

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- Eileen Gunn

Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
- David Brin

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

We went solar; sun went nova.
- Ken MacLeod

TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison

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