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Lucas Rizoli asked this question about Hard to Be a God:
What is "saiva?" Seems to be a sort of biome or forest—but I cannot find an actual translation/definition of it myself.
Ray I could not figure it out either as saiva is a bug, but in the book, they hack through the saiva, and the saiva meant business. From the various times…moreI could not figure it out either as saiva is a bug, but in the book, they hack through the saiva, and the saiva meant business. From the various times it comes up, I thought of it as a bramble - a any rough, tangled, prickly shrub that you tried to avoid going though.(less)
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Hard to Be a God
by Arkady Strugatsky
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