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2001 Odyssey part 244 There was a cosmic junk heap. Then he noticedsupernova7 that something strange was happening on the troubled starscape which its gravitational pull was a hundred times larger still he could not distinguish them from the intolerable glare of the suns crimson disk. He had been subjected to accelerations that should have crushed him instantly yet he had felt nothing. Chemical compounds could be only the feeblest echo of an unimaginable cacophony the atmosphere surrounding him must be one of those strange fierce little stars no larger than a star but slowly descending toward it.... ALTOGETHER

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