Meru (The Alloy Era, #1)
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Vaha had secured zirself in the berth diagonal from the courier’s.
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Perhaps these berths are arranged radially for some reason, but I would think that, given they are out of range of the planet's gravity, and given that alloys are designed to live in space and thus would think three-dimensionally, the most logical arrangement for berths in a four-berth station would be the four quarters of a tetrahedron, which means nothing would be diagonal from anything. Today on Extreme Nitpicking!
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They could speak through emtalk while their lips were busy elsewhere.
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Sexytimes with telepaths.
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“She?” “Yes, at least until she tells us otherwise.
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In this time it is routine that babies are genetically engineered and grown in an artificial womb. This particular baby is being built with XX chromosomes.
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At the end of that segment, they came upon a plaque with the words of Ratnam inscribed in glowing letters: Ambition and materialism lead to greed and exploitation.
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Am I searching too hard to note that Ratnam is Mantra backwards and with a single transposition? Given that this phrase is like a mantra for their entire civilization.