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AR the kinda guy to write bullshit like behold the wedding gun and then turn it into peak ten pages later

sun stealer sun stealer sun stealer
he’s in the city she’s in the ship ! i’m not sure i like this !

alastair if you say six seven again I’m Going To Fucking Find You
got the lowdown on some space-age races, as well as some really cool narrative on what the shrouders are. also ilia and khouri are both pointed towards dan now which is cool. AR loves nonlinearity which can be a bit disorienting but the way he smudges science and magic plays really well with the dreamy storytelling

“between the girls was an older woman, her face so colourless she might as well have been a lifesize origami toy, infolded, white and easily crushed.”
mr reynolds i promise it’s ok to jerk off before you start writing. that aside, three concurrent storylines with twenty years between each, there’s a celebrity assassin, a chainsmoking interstellar butch, and a nepo archaeologist with a jesus complex