“The standard smother-out technique,” Verkan Vall grinned. “I only heard a little talk about the ‘flying… — H. Beam Piper
“The standard smother-out technique,” Verkan Vall grinned. “I only heard a little talk about the ‘flying saucers,’ and all of that was in joke. In that order of culture, you can always discredit one true story by setting up ten others, palpably false, parallel to it.”
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