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You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better than what I do, instead of going on a bummer right away and saying, __h Christ, I__ obsolete, I__ outdated, I__e lost it._ I have this tremendous sense of joy. I don__ have to write all the great goddamn science fiction in the world. Somebody else is going to carry this torch. It__ such a relief to sit with my feet up on the wall and to know that if I never wrote another book science fiction is going ahead.
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You know, the way I feel, if I read a science fiction book by a new writer which is a lot better than what I do, instead of going on a bummer right away and saying, __h Christ, I__ obsolete, I__ outdated, I__e lost it._ I have this tremendous sense of joy. I don__ have to write all the great goddamn science fiction in the world. Somebody else is going to carry this torch. It__ such a relief to sit with my feet up on the wall and to know that if I never wrote another book science fiction is going ahead.

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