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by
John Scalzi
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February 3 - March 4, 2025
“How was Dalasýsla lost?” “The Flow stream access to it disappeared in 222,”
Toun Sandin,
Jendouba,
the blame should have properly set elsewhere.
But there is only one emperox, Cardenia thought. And she was on his ship.
Haha simile metaphor
Gunda Korbijn,
Haha.
formal and informal meetings with the guilds, parliament, and the church.”
Lenn Edmunk,
Upeksha Ranatunga,
“Our father believed in the balance of power that has allowed the Interdependency to thrive:
Trump!
Ranatunga
“It was your father’s policy, and the policy of the several emperoxs before him, to let End handle End.
the Count of Claremont.”
Sofala,
A physicist who studied the Flow.”
“Why did our father e...
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Lady Glenna.”
Haha - dad was bisexual? Question
House of Costu
this count wouldn’t be the first inconvenient lover an emperox shunted out of the picture with a title upgrade,
precedent suggests their argument has validity.
Question historical precedent is not legal precedent, it provides permission, not law.
Crown Princess Davina
Xi’an.
Haha. That’s putting it diplomatically. And provides historical permission - I.e., warning - to reject the current suit.
“Many potential problems and issues with the guilds could be dealt with expeditiously with this alliance.”
Why would the other leading guilds be ok either that rationale?
Haha sarcasm.
Amit Nohamapetan
“Grayland II.”
Took her father’s advice - I’m glad Scalzi went against trope (question) to make dad a likable character and one whom the protagonist respected, and even loved.
Xi’an,
Cardenia was tired of it in the first hour and there was all the rest of her life yet to go.
it’s a pretty fantastic power move.
Haha - Grayland Two.
the imperial palace of Xi’an.
Cardenia realized that “ornate” was a design motif she was probably stuck with now; she couldn’t just burn everything down and start with clean lines and spaces, tempting as it might be. She was emperox but even they had their limits.
Haha
A figure of light appeared in the center of the room and walked toward her.
“You know who I am,” Cardenia said, skipping the imperial “we.”
How? Question
Jiyi.
the Memory Room.
say.
Haha
it.”
I know a room like that. mee too
“Automated maintenance, ma’am,”
Haha
Emperox Attavio VI.
Each emperox was fitted with a personal network of sensors running through their body that captured not only every sight seen, and every sound heard or spoken by the emperox, but every other sensation, action, emotion, thought, and desire apprehended or produced by them as well.
They would answer from memory, from the thoughts and recordings and the computer modeling of who they were, girded on decades of every single thing about their internal lives recorded for this very room.
Every emperox will know who I was, better than history will.
“So you’re not conscious now?” “I’m not, but I can respond to you as if I were.
right now the Interdependency has no need of a nice emperox. It never does, but it can tolerate one when nothing consequential is going on.
Haha
