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  1. Find out what inspired George and Charles to write this story in their post for the Future Conditional blog

    Read more Futures by George Zebrowski and Charles Pellegrino

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  1. George Zebrowski is the John W. Campbell Award winner for Brute Orbits and author of the classic Macrolife. His fiction is available from SF Gateway (www.sfgateway) and Open Road (www.openroadmedia.com).,

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  2. Charles Pellegrino's notable works of history and archaeology include Her Name Titanic and To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima, and the novels Dust and The Killing Star (with George Zebrowski).,

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  1. Kenneth Pimple

    I've known many Jesuits (educated by them in high school and college, and many were friends) and until the very last line I was chanting, "That's not any Jesuit I ever knew."

    But the last line? It fits them all, God bless them.

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