The Long Utopia (32 page)
Authors: Terry Pratchett
We’re very grateful to our good friend Jacqueline Simpson for tracking down the source of Stan Berg’s quotation in Chapter 48 – ‘You cannot love what you do not know’ – which comes from the first paragraph of the thirty-seventh sermon on
The Song of Songs
by St Bernard of Clairvaux.
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December 2014, Datum Earth
SIR TERRY PRATCHETT
, OBE, was the author of more than seventy books, including the internationally bestselling Discworld series of novels. In January 2009 Pratchett was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services to literature. Sir Terry, who lived in England, died in 2015 at the age of sixty-six.
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STEPHEN BAXTER
is an acclaimed, multiple-award-winning author whose many books include the Xeelee Sequence series, the Time Odyssey trilogy (written with Arthur C. Clarke), and
The Time Ships
, a sequel to H. G. Wells’s classic
The Time Machine
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