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“Should be there in an hour,” he called back over his shoulder to Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: “Wonder if dang's reached 65,535 karma points. He was due about now.”

Chuck didn’t reply, so George swung round in his saddle. He could just see Chuck’s face, a white oval turned toward the sky.

“Look,” whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.)

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

>>faefox+(OP)
Haha, took me a while to catch the reference. It’s been a long time. Isaac Asimov, right? Edit: Oh, Arthur C. Clarke. Thanks, gopkarthik.

>>faefox+(OP)
From the brilliant short story: “One Billion Names Of God”.

(if anyone didn’t get the reference.)

>>hanche+pz
Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God