The following, as were the preceding three (1,2,3) and will be the other five entries in the series, are extracts from the Word of the Flame, the record of the seeress Merriéle’s visions that is also the primary text of the Church of the Flame, the mainstream
Makes about 20 appetizers. Ingredients 1 jar seawater-cured ilist leaves. 1 large onion ½ hand fresh sevet herb-mixture, adjusted seasonally 1 hand golden sun-dried Veilyns grapes ½ hand petals, flowers of pencail 1 hand mixed sweet nut paste 2 breasts of reshkef reshkef broth table spices and citrus juice to taste Preparation
Don’t Think, Feel: No, think. Always think, then think again, think some more, and implant a few co-processors to help you think. That, or find yourself beaten by someone who paid more attention to their talcorĂĂ«f.
The little sphere, whip antennae flying free, drifted slowly up from the nest of packaging it came in. “Hello! I’m your new Xinalath Eye-on-Stuff model 2.7 searchbot! May I have access to your local dataweave, please?” I gestured assent. “Thank you! Based on your configuration, this appears to
Domed Hometown: It could almost be most of them, inasmuch as the average Imperial garden world is a partially-terraformed Mars-type, both they and the non-garden worlds tend to have at least centrally domed towns, and then there’s the aerostat cities and underwater cities to consider, all of which have
I think we’ve hit upon the subtitle for the published version of the picture dictionary, too, by the way. (That was it.)
M is for Markets, one thing for another. When trading together, each soph is your brother. N is for Nanolathe, your tools in your hand. Making and fixing, Each at your command. O is for Obligator, a binder of oath. When each keeps a promise, it benefits both.
Dolphins Dolphins Everywhere: There are, and they have been uplifted (the dar-ĂĂche). However, contradicting the general pacifism and spiritual water-hippieness often implied in the dolphin tropes, frankly, they’re no better than anyone else. Especially where those, ah, robust senses of humor are concerned.
Dogs Are Dumb: Averted – partly because it’s not universally true in non-fiction anyway, and partly because one thing that differentiates the Elieran bandal from the Earth dog is that, being in need of assistance in many areas due to the relatively small, relatively slowly growing population that tends to
Like most ridiculously excessive weapons, the unique anti-materiel/area-denial weapon, “Sweet Kynthia”, was built to impress a lady, constructed by Sarai Iliastren-ith-Weváren during her pursuit of Kynthia Andracanth-ith-Andracanth, whose interests in heavy weapons – and indeed, whose own creations (see pps. 36, 42, 138, 196, 211, 335, 401, 545, 607-611, 720,
Do Androids Dream: Souls Are Software Objects. Period. And are usually referred to as “mind-states”, unless we’re being poetic. (There are civilizations that do not agree with this. They are all, in subcreational terms, objectively wrong. (And at least some of them suspect this, but it’s so much
“Yes, translocation should be easy. It doesn’t seem all that dissimilar from vector control, right? And this is exactly the sort of thing that ontotechnology does – gets intimate with the informational substructures of the physical universe. So why can’t we just poke new values into the spatial coordinates