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• More outlandish, actually, since I was part of the disease vector—it was like getting Dutch Elm disease from a person who had touched a tree that had once had the disease. —  AnalogSFF,April2008
• The pope ;s position was neither new nor outlandish, and it could be found in Andreas Osiander ;s preface to Copernicus ;s De Revolutionibus: Astronomical hypotheses are calculating devices; they have nothing to do with questions of truth or falsity. —  Galileo in Rome
• While Ford's stories certainly lean toward the playful and the out-outlandish, the extravagance of his fantastic premises is balanced by the palpability his characters and plots. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002
• For the specifics (all of which are so outlandish, they're entertaining),
• The broad reading of presidential authority was "outlandish," and the constitutional arguments were "shockingly flawed," Ms. Johnsen has written. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed

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