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chapter three

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Silvia, 31, an Italian abroad. ENFP. This blog is like that section in bookshops that encompasses both fantasy and sci fi. There's really no rhyme or reason to it.
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look i really love where this foundation trilogy is going. i love how it speculates that technology will be a kind of religion where everyone has access to it but only a few know the real rubriks of it and those few are looked to as acolytes of god. and how a few years in it’s not the “spiritualists” but the traders who gain power as money once again becomes the main medium of exchange and the technology they sell is used as a way to gain a foreign power’s favor and, due to the foreign power’s lack of knowledge on the technology’s inner workings, eventual dependence on the planet that provided said technology, thus preventing war and even opening it to the possibility of annexation. i love it so far, i really do

but when the first woman with actual lines, after 130 pages of a male-dominated book, is a wife who is concernedly advising her politician husband against engaging into a dealing that may well be a trap but is then silenced by the mere glamour of space jewelry and a few glowing orbs, WELL…

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