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“There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.” quote by Alastair Reynolds — Download Open image

“There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.”

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