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"By the time I can take people out to where Hubble is looking, they won't be human anymore, by a long way."
- Larry Niven
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| Genetic designers create better-than-perfect eyes for replicants. |
A genetic designer of eyes has an unpleasant meeting with replicants who interrupt his lab work.
 (Genetic design of eyes from Blade Runner) |
| Technovelgy from Blade Runner,
by Ridley Scott. Published by Blade Runner Partnership in 1982 Additional resources -
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'...it rears and spreads its fan. It can pick one man out of a crowd.'
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