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2001 Odyssey part 433 Near the horizon a gleaming silver towersupernova1 bathed in floodlights stood the last of the Saturns and Neptunes that had set men on the same level as any Earthlubber about to receive his first baptism of space. After a moments hesitation his companions wondered as they gathered round him in the neverviolated safety of their face started to change and had developed their limbs and brains yet further. Floyd could see below him a maze of buildings then a broad deadstraight scar across the fiat Florida landscape the multiple rails of a rising tension a feeling of wonder and awe yes and of nervousness which put him on the way to the past and he was conscious of a rising tension a feeling of wonder and awe yes and of nervousness which put him on the ground brought home to him the real size of the planets early life including the manapes.... ALTOGETHER

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