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  • On long space missions, sessions in the quivira were a medicine for sensory impoverishment.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • On long space missions, sessions in the quivira were a medicine for sensory impoverishment.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Why trouble to come for pleasure when you could have the experience more easily and cheaply in a quivira?

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • To have a more lifelike experience, he would have had to get into a quivira.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • "I search for God in the quivira," Cavalheiro tried to explain.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • He severely rationed both his time in the quivira and the adventures he dreamed there.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • "You have ranged widely, then-and, I deem, as much in your person as in vivifer or quivira."

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Her presence, yes, embraces like no other woman's whom he had known or imagined or even met in quivira dreams; but he did not delude himself that she loved him, and never could he have a child by her.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Passing 'teiner, she saw what was new, a quivira opposite Alamo Square.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • A quivira gives nothing but the full-sensory illusion, the dream, of an experience.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

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