The security services are alarmed. Every nation that does research into fundamental physics — what we call… — Philip Pullman
The security services are alarmed. Every nation that does research into fundamental physics — what we call experimental theology — is turning to its scientists urgently to discover what's going on. Because they know that something is happening. And they suspect it has to do with other worlds.
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