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Cities in Flight by
James Blish
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Anne Abbott
Bliss Wagoner
The Bridge
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He knew well enough that the end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary ….
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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
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it had been a bad day in a long succession of bad days.
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Because scientific method doesn’t work any more. It depends on freedom of information, and we deliberately killed that.
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There was always a tornado shaking the Bridge. The whole planet was enswathed in tornadoes and worse.
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That was at the northwestern end of the Bridge, where it broke off, leaving nothing but the raging clouds of ammonia crystals and methane, and a sheer drop thirty miles down to the invisible surface.
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The Bridge was building itself. Massive, alone, and lifeless, it grew in the black deeps of Jupiter.
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“REPENT!” the robot intoned,
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Anne Abbott was one of those exceedingly rare plain girls whose smiles completely transform them, as abruptly as the bursting of a star-shell.
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a man who had seen her smile might well be willing to kill himself working to make her smile again
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