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The book opens on Mars, with a broken spaceship and a teleporter — the Teleclone Mark IV, which disassembles you atom by atom and reassembles you on Earth from a beamed blueprint. You step through. Your daughter has grown three years older. And the second-person narrator is left doing arithmetic no …
Read more →Every FTL drive is a theory of war. The physics you invent to cross between stars dictates whether empires can exist—fixed jump points make navies, open jumps make pirates, and lightspeed delays make every admiral a politician guessing at yesterday's map.
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Bart Fraden decides to addict an entire ruling class to a drug because it will save lives later. He says this to Sophia O'Hara over a bowl of rice pilaf, in the flat tone of a man doing inventory: "The more thoroughly hooked they are, the less killing later. Let 'em stay bombed and happy till it's t…
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