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The truth is I'm actually Graydon Saunders and I was bored. Anyway when does the next book come out lol. I'm kind of hoiped which is unusual for me with books.
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That's why it gets so sticky, yeah, those are two fundamental core tenants of the Commonweal and it's society coming into conflict. You have similar problems in real life with the USSR/GDR/CCP's weird hybrid systems- those governments wanted to reward work they thought was especially important but had a lot of trouble doing it without making scientists and engineers and poo poo into a new ruling class. Especially when these people tended to be connected politically and so already had plenty of power that they theoretically shouldn't. This is kind of a problem that any socialist government will have, and it's cool that Saunders shows it.
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Jul 25, 2022 05:14
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I like that Edgar's perspective involves a lot of detail but it often lacks subtext or background information so while it's less ultra-terse than The Standard-Captain's perspective, it feels like it's actually telling you even less.
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Dec 8, 2022 07:11
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I like to think that the Standard-Captain is just kind of a weirdo for that, or it's not actually a Commonweal cultural thing to avoid gendering people and it's just a Creeks thing, and the refugees have picked up on it. Although the real answer is that hadn't been quite worked out, I bet.
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Dec 15, 2022 09:09
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that would make sense for Halt. her image is just whatever your platonic ideal of a grandma is, no matter how little sense it makes.
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Dec 15, 2022 18:09
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i just like that as far as im aware it's fundamentally alien for the most part to any real cultures norms on this stuff. i like that kind of ordinary foreignness to my fantasy and scifi.
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Dec 15, 2022 23:37
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I believe that particular threat is never classified, and I don't remember if it gets mentioned in later books but I imagine it's on the Standard-Captain and friends' mind even as they deal with the apocalyptic schism and the southern threat.
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Dec 30, 2022 17:10
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habeasdorkus posted:Isn't the Line outside of the Peace Established? So you can't really borrow platoons from the Line to do things like transport goods and people from place to place. There's some bureaucratic and magical reasons that it's not often done, yeah. I believe most relevantly though, it's straight up tradition. It's not until the formation of the Second Commonweal and official state support of wreaking collectives that 'federal' policy begins to include magical solutions to things. But the Second Commonweal still wants to use sorcerers and wreaking collectives for that kind of thing, rather than Line battalions. Also, while Standards are powerful and versatile magical tools, they aren't very great at detail work of any kind. There's one technique the Line has for road making and that's as good as it gets, iirc.
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Dec 31, 2022 11:30
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I was totally pronouncing Wapentake in my head like it was a native American word, lol. But obviously it's old English like everything else in the book.
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Dec 31, 2022 23:26
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constant is a gestalt of some of the core young external power group, yeah. they have names for all of the gestalts, because iirc Blossom eventually can meld with them too. and these gestalts really are their own person separate from their component personalities, too.
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Jan 20, 2023 22:31
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Plenty of stuff gets answered but it's rarely answered explicitly. You gotta work to understand more than the plot in these books.
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Jan 23, 2023 21:16
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Actually, yeah. Basically all of that gets answered lol. But you have to pick up on it.
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Book 2 does a fantastic job of explaining a bunch of poo poo without feeling like the characters are lecturing you, the reader. Which is often not the case with this kind of setup
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