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Jag gav dig ändå ett helt dygn att gissa rätt på Ferrante eftersom jag kände igen det på en gång. Det här är straffet.
SF ja men författaren har även gjort sig bemärkt inom "vanlig" skönlitteratur och fått några av dessa titlar översatta till svenska. Hans SF-produktion är mig veterligt helt oöversatt.
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The Hicturean-Anjrinh Scholastery sat on a low hill a day's ride from the Hicturean tower in the direction of nearpole, so that the great column was almost directly between it and Pourl. Like most Scholasteries the place was forbidding-looking, even if technically it was unfortified. It looked like a long, low castle with its curtain wall removed. It had two turrets but they housed telescopes rather than guns. The visible walls actually looked quite jolly, painted in all sorts of different colours, but it still appeared somehow grim to Ferbin. He had always been rather in awe of such places and the people who inhabited them. To give yourself up to a life of study, thought and contemplation seemed like, well, such a waste. He tipped continually between contempt for anyone who could cut themself off from so much that made life fun just to pursue this abstraction they called learning, and something close to reverence, deeply impressed that seriously clever people would willingly choose such an abstemious existence.