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Neither scintillas nor the Qataari are mentioned elsewhere in the series, though both would seem important if not vital. The scintillas in particular would seem to negate the quantum uncertainty of geography so prized by Priest. In any case, the vie…
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(Quote) In games where servants would be usual, I sometimes have each PC play both their main character an another PC's servant. With some groups this works a treat, but some players do not like playing more than one character.
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(Quote) For example, I like the idea of a native assisting an Ambassador at the highest level, Two Seagrass' position, ensuring they get access to what they need. The Ambassador most probably doesn't know how to game the local system, especially ear…
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For example, the garden with the hummingbirds, or the solar temple at the end, or the party where Mahit is confirmed as ambassador, to name a few. To me, these were visceral and full of sensory cues.
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(Quote) Perhaps it is meant to show that despite Teixcalaan's essentially self absorbed culture, it can relate and communicate with very different beings?
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(Quote) I couldn't say. What is right depends too much on the cultural context. Any action could destroy the culture that action was meant to save. Is the Mongolian metal band The Hu right to incorporate Mongolian culture into their metal songs? Per…
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I am a game designer of games no one but myself plays. They tend to be built around the interplay of different cultures, so this sort of thing is already important. I tend to think of roleplaying games as being built and adjudicated on three differe…
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(Quote) Of course there were wider forces at play, but there were enough in the key players to get the gist of what was going on. It felt right to me at any rate!
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(Quote) Wow! The City and the World were extremely vivid sensory experiences for me!
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(Quote) This was my experience! Thank you Richard. I think perhaps what I think of as good writing is very different from what some of you consider good writing.
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(Quote) Yes - this was communicated brilliantly! I loved every bit of the cultural content! I got the Lsel Stationers and I got the Teixcalaani. It all worked. (Quote) Perhaps that there is a reason Three Seagrass was what she was? (Quote) It coul…
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(Quote) Unless it is deliberately resurrected.
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You and I remember Budapest very differently...
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The answer is that every culture has to decide for itself. There is no one size fits all.
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Ah, I loved all the characters! I thought they were all well drawn, as much as the plot would allow. The bad guys were not so much doing bad things as acting inappropriately for the situation. This was my kind of book all the way. As soon as I finis…
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I think she made the correct choice. I am sure most Teixcalaani poetry would be impossible to correctly model in English, especially since I doubt she actually created a comp lang and wrote poetry in it to translate into English...
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(Quote) My feelings were very similar to Richard here. There was no horror, just a puzzled 'why?'. The story feels heavy and inevitable, in the sense that every move Graian attempted to avoid things was just flat out denied him. Don't even give him …
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(Quote) Ray has a history of drifting off and scrambling back on! :D
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(Quote) Exactly!
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(Quote) Thanks Neil! I didn't want you to think I wasn't interested!
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I will join later - I am way behind on this! Just busy with stuff as so far I like it!
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If sex were as awkward, ugly, and unsatisfying as CP always portrays, no one would do it... So far this story seems odd and disjointed - probably working up to a hideous climax! (See what I did there?) But it also is not the same island as in The I…
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(Quote) My guess is that Lenden puts her hand into a vagina dentata - in other words she associates sex with pain, probably because of some terrible traumatic episode with Seri and/or a priest, which she has papered over in her mind and replaced wit…
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(Quote) Four words: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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I also accidentally read past the ending of this second part, and I fear to comment lest my further reading taint my comments. Therefore I will comment at the end.
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If ever there was proof positive of my theory that this is a collection of stories, each set in entirely different but eerily similar worlds, this story is it. The Catholic church here cinches it. So far, I love the story as it unfolds. Priest at hi…
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Wow! Hard to imagine a book club without Apocryphal in charge! I will do what I can to help! @RichardAbbott - you have my email if I get too wrapped up in making my latest album or game to notice! I sometimes require poking, but I am always happy to…
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(Quote) My take as well.
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(Quote) I like it! It fits.
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(Quote) Wells doesn't admit the possibility of an alternative because that is not what he is interested in exploring in this book. You are free to read what he actually felt about that topic and many others. He was not shy. I do not think he was int…