"If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment."

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Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.

— L. Sprague de Camp