In Coffee Spoons

"Eh."

Professor: So if an autotransfusion uses your own blood, then a homotransfusion would use...?"

Classmate: Blood from another species!

Rest of class: ...

Professor: Um. If we did that, which we never ever do, it would be called a xenotransfusion, which we would never ever do.

The best thing was how confidently that girl's hand shot up in the air. She knew she had this one.

"I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer — one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well."


Arthur C. Clarke
December 17, 1917 – March 19, 2008


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"Badder than old king kong, and meaner than a junkyard dog."

Jay Schafer