"I don't believe in flying saucers... The energy requirements of interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades."

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“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

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