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We were come upon a wasteland...as was calculated, true, when emergency landing areas were designated, but in fact 'emergency landing area" was a sort of joke, wasn't it, intended to somehow give the impression that things were somehow under control somehow even after a crash, but they were not under control, were they? No, they were not under control; nothing was under control.
- Algis Budrys, Hard Landing, p.330 (in SF Gateway Omnibus)
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