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Tweet"Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like the spermatozoa attacking an ovum."
Dan Simmons in Hyperion
Originally Published Jan. 1, 1989
Paperback edition:
482 pages - Dec. 1, 1995