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J. G. Ballard

“People within the science fiction world never regarded me as one of them in the first place. They saw me as the enemy. I was the one who wanted to subvert everything they believed. I wanted to kill outer space stone dead. I wanted to kill the far future and Read the rest

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 15th, 1891, in Kiev, Ukraine. He was the son of a professor at the Kiev Theological Academy. He graduated as a doctor in 1916. After eighteen months in general practice in the depths of rural Russia (the subject matter of A Country Doctor’s Notebook) … Read the rest

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