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Requiem for Methuselah

James Blish · 1972short story

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Quarantined on a plague world, Kirk falls for a sheltered young woman raised by an immortal, centuries-old recluse, only to discover she is an android built as his companion — and the crew's last hope for a cure to a fever that will otherwise kill them all.

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