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The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Ace Books, a major purveyor of escapist science fiction during the Cold War year, targeted an audience of teenage boys with its simplistic good- versus-evil space operas, most of them priced at an affordable thirty-five cents. Few of these books remain in print nowadays, but a handful have become classics, some even gaining eventual recognition as serio…

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