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The Stars Are Legion
The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley
Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worldsand may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless a desperate plan succeeds. Anat, leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, wants peace. To do so she offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, to her rival. Jayd has dreamed about leading her mothers armies to victory her whole lifebut she has a unique ability, and that makes her leverage, not a leader. As Anat convinces her to spend the rest of her life wed to her familys greatest enemy, it is up to Jayds sister Zanwith no stomach for warto lead the cast off warriors she has banded together to victory and rescue Jayd. But the war does not go at all as planned In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about familial love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genres most imaginative new writers.
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Lucy_Anywhere
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Mehso-so

This was an imaginative, gritty and wonderfully weird sci-fi that was full of cool ideas, but I can‘t say I enjoyed it. I loved the all-female world, the unreliable narrators, the quest through different levels… but the biotech was all a bit too icky for me. The blood and sclera and teeth and afterbirth 🤢 I spent a lot of time grossed out. Cool concept, but too visceral for me! #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yeeeeah I don't need all the gory details!!! 3y
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Lucy_Anywhere
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#TBRPile 📚 “There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.”

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broughtyoubooks
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Mehso-so

When the whole book passes the Bechdel test 💕 Lesbians in space and really well-written, involved characters. Sometimes the prose lapsed into super cliche 'quotable' lines, but for the most part it was incredible.

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uwak
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I ended up really enjoying this book but for reasons that might not fly for everyone. Hurley is excellent at worldbuilding, and the unexpected use of a biopunk setting rife with body horror was visceral, gross and I LOVED it. unfortunately her stellar worldbuilding comes at the behest of characterization. I also felt this book needed to really slow down in order to establish the scale of conflict properly. a fun and unique read, but very flawed.

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uwak
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due to a miscommunication mishap, it turns out *this* title is our next book club read instead of snake agent. whoops. I'm still willing to finish snake agent since I'm so far in it by now but I guess this is my new spring break work companion.

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BookBelle84
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Loved The Light Brigade so much I had to try another of her novels!

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Mehso-so

Well ultimately this #sciencefiction novel was disappointing. I appreciate the very unique world-building and the fact that casually all the characters are (queer) women, but in the end I just didn't enjoy this very much? You're kept in the dark for 9/10ths of the book with this character who lost her memory and by the time you find out the twist, it was too late for me to care. I also never connected with any of the characters. #QueerBooks

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Lizpixie
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For my entry into the #Hr6SFFchallenge in the #24in48 #readathon I‘ve pulled just a fraction of the SciFi books on my shelves. SciFi was my first #genrelove when I found Anne McCaffrey & Piers Anthony on the library shelves. Then it was the classics, but the new SciFi coming through is just as fantastic & sometimes a little bit twisted. And weird. Like the tagged book, about an all female race living on an organic ship that are recycled for parts!

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Went with my friend Jeff and my dog Whitey (well she's mostly my partner's dog but mine now too) to a dog-friendly bookstore today. I got two #QueerBooks, one of which was on sale! Queer space opera and bisexual necromancy in YA. Can't wait to read them! Whitey also really liked the store because a staff member gave her a dog treat. #DogsOfLitsy

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Soubhiville
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Bailedbailed

Well that‘s too bad. This came recommended by a friend who knows the author, so I had high hopes. But alas, this type of Sci-fi just isn‘t for me. Sorry Jay!

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Squidapus
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Absolutely fantastic. An incredibly unique world about living flesh planets, the women who live in them and trying to escape the life it forces them into. The writing is so gooey and evocative that you feel slimy just reading it. Squidapus thought the plot was easy to predict because of the themes/point it tried to convey but it didn't detract from the journey. Also, all the people on these worlds are women! Well earned the genre "womb-punk"

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Squidapus
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Godspeed flipper-boat, wherever your weird little paddle flippers will take you. I'll never forget you. ;----;

seydoggy I loved this weird and wonderful book. So vivid, sloppy, oozing and organic. 6y
Squidapus @seydoggy Those are perfect words for it. It's excellent but I feel wet and sludgy just reading it. Squidapus seems to be fine tho 6y
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Squidapus
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Oh gosh, Squidapus and I have been so busy lately we haven't been able to read or post (or like all your wonderful posts!) as much as we want! Hopefully we can get back on the ball starting with The Stars Are Legion and be a bit more active!

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Hurley classifies this as “wombpunk” which has me intrigued. I quite enjoyed her ultra-violent Islamic Matriarchy on a Planet of Giant Bugs trilogy, the Bel Dame Apocrypha. 6y
Squidapus @TobeyTheScavengerMonk ...that sounds amazing. 6y
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Settings
The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley
Mehso-so

Seems like several different books sloppily glued together. Despite how it's entirely inner monologues, the view point characters seem poorly developed.

So-so instead of bail because the world-building was interesting.

[Plot direction spoilers]

I've read too many "main character goes a quest journey collecting quirky companions" books. It's a lazy and unimaginative plot choice.

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TCLinrow
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#EndoWarrior21Giveaway @Endowarrior21

Congratulations on the milestone! And a big thank you for the awesome giveaway 💙💛💜 My choices will be:
1) The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
2) Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
3) Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza

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only1twitch
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I first listened to this audio book but this time around I read the hard copy. Definitely picked up more this time. As always, I‘m a sucker for worldbuilding and this has it in droves. From largely organic world-ships to cephalopod guns (🤩) to a female-only society with no mention of any other sex, it‘s just totally fascinating and easy to get lost in.

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parasolofdoom
The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley

Needed a break from the Midnight Robber dialect so pulling up this title too. I'm in the mood for some world gen ship kinda sci fi.

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only1twitch
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That feeling when the book drags you in and doesn‘t let go ❤️

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Marmie7
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Thank you @eanderson ! What a nice thing to do. Here's my #oneofthreegiveaway choices💗

eanderson Thank you for entering and your name is in the hat! 😊 7y
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TracyReadsBooks
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Ann Leckie describes this book as “kind of awesome fun” & she‘s not wrong. What‘s not to love? It‘s a space opera populated by an all female cast—that‘s right, there isn‘t a man to be found anywhere—living on world-ships on the fringes of the universe. It examines gender identity & more within a love story mixed up in a revenge tale wrapped inside some of the most creative worldbuilding I‘ve read in a long time. Excellent, thought provoking book.

398.2 Is that a clip from Saga on your wall?! 7y
TracyReadsBooks @398.2 Yep! Love it when Marko says, “Please, keep reading.” I have another print with Marko and Alana but it‘s not in the picture. Saga is THE BEST!!! 7y
398.2 Omg! I love it! Did you buy them somewhere? 7y
TracyReadsBooks @398.2 The one in the photo was given to me by a friend. However, I did buy the other print. I want to say I got it here— https://www.essentialsequential.com/Fiona-Staples_c_37.html — but they don‘t seem to have a lot of inventory right now. If I come across another source, I‘ll let you know! 7y
398.2 That would be great! 7y
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Nineshadesofnifty
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Best book dedication ever.

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TracyReadsBooks
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Now heading to the outer rim of the universe—going with science fiction for the next read.

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literate.panda
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Come for the worldbuilding; stay, in confusion, with a need for closure.

Ingredients:
7fl oz - Viscera
4oz - Women-only populated Organic Worldships
A pinch of War&Genocide
2 POVs (pref. Unreliable)
3fl oz - Amnesia
1Tbsp - Space, swirled through

Makes: 12hrs of Gory, glorious weirdness.

Fast paced tension at the perfect heat, sprinkled with just enough sweet to balance out all the sour.

Drink pairing:
Anything caffeinated.

DEVOURED! 😍

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shanaqui
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Mehso-so

I don't know what I just read or what I think about it. I probably need to let it sit before I properly review it.

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Lizpixie
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#EmojiNov #day5 #🤷🏻‍♀️#WhatThe? This novel from start to finish had me going “What the hell am I reading?!” The story is so strange and weird, I have no clue what the inside of the authors brain looks like, but I bet she‘d rival Stephen King himself! With living spaceships, all female human race, recycling people, women giving birth to ship parts & womb swapping, there‘s a hella ton of crazy here, but so well written you can‘t put it down🤷🏻‍♀️

Sue 💜💚💜💚💜 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk I‘ve heard the author call the genre of this book “wombpunk”. 7y
Lizpixie @TobeyTheScavengerMonk hah! That is so appropriate! Have you read it? 7y
RealLifeReading Sounds fascinating 7y
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2BR02B
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Ohai Litsy. Do you like short fiction? Sci fi/fantasy? Reading stuff by and about LGBTQIA folks? If you answered "yes" to even one of the above you should join this FB group my friend just started: https://www.facebook.com/groups/269581550205839/ (Disclaimer: you don't need to be a lesbian or female-identifying to join.) Every week a new short story is posted, read, and discussed. It's low-commitment, but you just might discover a new fav author.

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Lizpixie
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#SeptemBowie #day1 #SpaceOddity I have never read a book set in space that is more odd than this one. Where do I start? With the organic living ships that have tentacles, bleed and have cancers? What about the all female civilization that give birth, not to babies, but to parts of the ship that are needed? How about the womb swapping. Or the recycler monster that eats people. Space Oddity indeed.🚀

RanaElizabeth So odd but so good, I love Hurley's writing. 7y
Cinfhen What???? 🍌👖 7y
Librariana Whoa!! That sounds out there! 7y
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Librariana @Cinfhen 😄😂🤣➡🍌👖 7y
Lizpixie @Cinfhen ??indeed, it was an @Liberty recommendation of course! @RanaElizabeth I know what you mean, while I was going "what the hell is this?!?" in my head, I still couldn't put it down. Her writing is compelling. 7y
RanaElizabeth @Lizpixie Compelling for sure! I have such admiration for writers with imaginations. I love elves and swords but I love wierd and strange even more. 7y
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Lizpixie
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#BackToReading #day16 #OutOfThisWorld If you want Out Of This World, this novel has it both in situation (set in the dark edge of the galaxy) and in content (one of THE strangest books I've ever read) I can't begin to describe this book, just think All female population. Organic "ships" that are alive. Women who give birth to parts of the ship that are needed.(yep) and. Womb swapping. It's a wild wild ride!

NovelGirl82 That sounds insane! I need to read this! 7y
LazyOwl This sounds like my kinda book, another one for the TBR 7y
Sue This book blew my mind in the best kinda way. 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled This just sounds too weird to pass up. Stacked! 7y
robinb Wow. 😳 That description stopped me dead. 🤔😮 7y
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IReadThereforeIBlog
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Kameron Hurley's standalone SF novel is an all female character tour de force with imaginative world building and a twisting plot filled with deception and betrayal and although I felt that some of the supporting characters were a little undervalued (notably antagonists Rasida and Anan), the novel nevertheless kept me engrossed from beginning to end.

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charissharpe
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It's sooooo windy again today that they've put weather warnings up on site as it's getting stronger, Tom's happy though he's watching the paragliders.

I'm snuggled up in my sweater in my camping chair eating lemon sorbet & reading this by our pod 📚

#staycation #sciencefiction #scifi

Sophoclessweetheart Pod? How cute! What are they? X 7y
charissharpe @MythicReads it's a bit like a shed 😂 just big enough for a double bed & two singles (for kids) but nothing else. It's better than trying to set up & take down a tent, and tomorrow is forecast for heavy wind & rain but we'll be all nice & cosy! 7y
Sophoclessweetheart Oh! That sounds blissful! Where is it? 😍 7y
charissharpe @MythicReads down in Dorset, we stay every year 😀 7y
Sophoclessweetheart Oh how precious 😻x 7y
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Lizpixie
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Well.That has got to be the most strange,disgusting, weird,compelling,bananapants SciFi novel I have EVER read! In a reality far from ours,humanity is clinging to life on the rim of the galaxy in a series of organic ships called The Legion. I say humanity but it's only women. And instead of giving birth to babies, they give birth to parts of the ship. And there's cannibalism. And mutants. Plus womb swapping. Oh, don't forget the 2headed witches.🤔

LeeRHarry Sounds like it would be right in @Liberty 's wheelhouse - if it hasn't been read already! 😏 7y
Lizpixie @LeeRHarry where do you think I heard about it!😋 7y
minkyb That is certainly a unique concept! 7y
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Lizpixie
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SciFi has sure gotten stranger in the last fifty years. As hard as it was to explain the plot of Ancillary Justice, this book is even weirder. I'm 100pgs in & I have no idea what's going on. And neither does the main character.🤔 #ItsLifeJimButNotAsWeKnowIt

readordierachel Ooh, now I'm intrigued. Just got this from the library. 7y
rubyslippersreads Maybe Captain Kirk can explain it to you. 😄 7y
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Lizpixie
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My next read is this highly regarded SciFi novel written by the same woman who wrote The Geek Feminist Revolution. On the rim of the universe, a company of decaying world-ships known as The Legion are moving in the seams between stars. A war has raged for control for generations with no progress. Zan awakens with no memory, but is told she's the salvation of the Legion, but even with no memory she knows they are lying. Soon she must choose sides.

ReadingEnvy I liked her earlier novel 7y
RanaElizabeth Hurley has become an auto-buy for me. This book, like most of her fiction, is bonkers in the best way. 7y
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charissharpe
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So I bought this for my other half who can't get into it, so I'm adding it to my #tbr! There's so many fiction books on my list it'll be tough to choose which one to read once I l've finished The Pillars of the Earth.

Have you read this?

#scifi #sciencefiction #bookish #booknerdigans #booklover #bibliophile

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sakeriver
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This was a really engaging read. I'm very pleased to get to see what's happening with the space opera genre these days. This one takes two elements we're familiar with—memory loss and generation ships that have existed so long that the passengers have forgotten they're passengers—and combines it with the idea of living spaceships, giving us a story that feels very fresh. Great characters, engaging storyline, and amazing worldbuilding.

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upgradedhuman
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Mehso-so

Described to me as "lesbians in space" I really thought I was going to like this book more. The overall message and world building was pretty good, but there was something missing that I can't put a finger on.

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hernanderson
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What is love anyway but a hunger that no meal can satisfy?
#lesbiansinspace

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naturalog
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Loving this book. It was pitched to me as Lesbians In Space, and it's definitely making good on that promise. Lesbians In Space and so much more.

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kammartinez
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Full review here: Full review here: http://wp.me/p21txV-AO

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ of 5 ⭐️a

As violent and bloody as can be expected from Hurley's work, but also a great exploration of a woman's dual nature and creator and destroyer, both of which involve massive amounts of pain and blood. I do wish it was longer though; plenty of stuff that was left hanging and I wish was further explored/developed.

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NikkiDolson
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Strong, wondrous storytelling. Loved this one and I'm so sad it's over.

It's wonderful when the right book comes along to feed your soul.

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kammartinez
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RanaElizabeth So good. So strange. So very, very good. 7y
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kammartinez
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I have been waiting for this since its release was announced last year, and I am SO EXCITED to finally get to it! So glad to see Hurley go back to sci-fi, and in a space opera at that :D. Of course, it's bound to have a LOT of blood and other bodily fluids spilled out in ways that'll make me cringe in sympathetic pain, but that's part of reading a Kameron Hurley production, and I've always been willing that particular price-for-entry XD.

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terynjrobinson
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Hurley, Kameron. The Stars are Legion, loc 3469 of 4707. #womenshealth #abortion #prochoice #womensbodies

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tea.n.books
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When you understand what the world is, you have two choices: Become a part of that world and perpetuate that system forever and ever, unto the next generation. Or fight it, and break it, and build something new. The former is safer, and easier. The later is scarier, because who is to say what you build will be any better? But living in servitude is not living. Slavery ensures one's existence, but there is no future in it.

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Misanthropester
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"It's not a scream of fear but one of frustration."

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Misanthropester
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so wait...the days here are roughly 36 hours long so in a year or "cycle" that's 21,600 hrs. To translate that to our time...a "cycle" is nearly 2.5 yrs...damn

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ssravp
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Mehso-so

I'm not really sure what I just read, but it was definitely different, and entertaining.

moranadatter I bailed on it. The world building was fascinating so I might try it again later, but I found it hard to care enough about the characters to finish the story. 8y
ssravp @moranadatter I almost bailed a couple of times. I didn't much care for the characters but I wanted to see how the story played out. 8y
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