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“You got it, Chrissie.”
“Don’t fucking call me that. I’m the acting secretary-general of the United Nations, not your favorite stripper.”
Amos spread his hands. “Could be room for both.”

Naomi with the hardest storyline and quest again. Subverts the damsel in distress trope. But do her actions while in harm’s way substantively lead to the antagonist’s downfall?

Much… better than Cibola Burn.

Word that were perfectly empty and heartwarming and cruel. 152
Make it seem like each new hurdle was something he’d factored in, every solution … somehow his brilliance.

Companionable silence
Things go pear-shaped

Ch 56 surprisingly self conscious about being a western wrapped up in science fiction trappings. The frontier settlers and the railroad company. The hired security and the paragon sheriff. The retort from the villain. 538 come on, Black Bart, you always knew it would end this way.

Ch 50 makes you think about holding to one’s duty and how that diminishes when end of life approaches quickly. Meaning falls away for some, for others it holds fast. Good exploration of duty against inevitable end.

Ch 41 something about oncocidals having an effect on fast dividing organisms that are not earthly in origin. Convergent evolution crating the same weaknesses.