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Sam

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Cooperator and Atlantan, when not reading 📚 probably wants to be out backpacking ⛺🥾, climbing 🧗, or mountain biking 🚵.

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The Hydrogen Sonata (EBook, 2012, Little, Brown Book Group) 4 stars

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. …

Content warning Spoilers about the decision taken in the end

The Hydrogen Sonata (EBook, 2012, Little, Brown Book Group) 4 stars

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. …

Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We’ve spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while refining the legacy of a won galactic war. Who do you think has the real martial provenance here? In a fight, you’d have no choice but to try to destroy me immediately. You’d fail. I’d have a choice of just how humiliatingly to cripple you. This is the truth; depend.

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The Hydrogen Sonata (EBook, 2012, Little, Brown Book Group) 4 stars

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. …

The first problem was getting all the bits and pieces out of the way, so there would be room for itself.

Actually, who was it kidding? The first problem was all about not blowing up the world, or at the very least not annihilating both itself, fifty horizontal kilometres of Girdlecity, who-knew-how-many lives locally and immediately, and then an additional who-knew-how-sizable number over a significant proportion of the rest of the planet with the resulting fireball, blast front, secondary debris impact events and all the resulting ancillary fire, tertiary impact and ground-shock effects.

Another fucking day at the office, the ship thought

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