Shane Kiely
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Ann Leckie:
About a third of the way through Ancillary Sword & curious about the setting. The Radchaai have a obviously non Judeo Christian belief system so clearly they don't mark time in terms of AD or CE. Do you have a clear idea in your own mind how far in the future (in terms of years) the events of Ancillary Justice etc are taking place or is it just an undetermined far future?
Ann Leckie
At one point, Breq mentions the fact that the language of a particular song has been dead for about ten thousand years. That number isn't an exact one, but the song is one of the three "real" songs in the book.
It doesn't give an exact date, of course--I'd need to have mentioned at least an approximate date for when French went extinct, which I don't--but it gives you a ballpark.
A really, really far-future ballpark.
It doesn't give an exact date, of course--I'd need to have mentioned at least an approximate date for when French went extinct, which I don't--but it gives you a ballpark.
A really, really far-future ballpark.
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