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Apr 1, 2012

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navyjack posted:

I think that Martian society is incredibly fascinating in these books. The Gevulot, the Quiet...I would read an entire series that revolved around the Investigator and the Gentleman solving crimes in a world where reality has privacy settings.

Someone said something about Martian animals attacking the moving city. I think they are more like the minmints/Karakuri from the Richard Morgan novel "Woken Furies." Self-aware, self-replicating combat machines.

Weren't they terraforming machines?

The Investigator's cases would make a great short story collection.

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Apr 1, 2012

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One thing's already clear from this thread - I need to carve out some time to reread both books and see what all I missed or misunderstood.

One thing confuses me about the Sobornost vs. zoku and quantum computing: the Sobornost generating artificial singularities on Venus in order to produce prodigious computational density on an evaporating event horizon. Near the Planck limit that process can't be described classically.

The Sobornost must have recorded the 'output' of the singularity and still have access to Sydan's information/gogol if Mieli is willing to serve Pelligrini to get her back.

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Apr 1, 2012

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Date on Amazon says July 15, at least in the US.

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