Mark’s Reviews > Children of Strife > Status Update

I was right, mostly 🎉

A great read, as always. More types of consciousness to explore and more fun characters.

Love what they’ve done with the Nodan. No octopuses or crows this time, but Cato was excellent.

I’m not sure if Kott et al are still in Marduk’s ecosystem somehow but I predict this ends with Mira overtaking all of it and turning the planet into a welcoming home for the people who live there. Fewer bugs, for a start 🤣

Eventually.

“Rescue”
Implies
“From Whom”
🤣

Slowly, things are picking up.

The other Alis indeed a Nodan.

And now we have a Portiid Tuvix situation 😄

Four bodies? Someone’s getting spaced 🤣

Okay, so.
Kott is Hartland’s Gaia.
The ark ship seeds Hartland with human life.
The panspecies ship crashed for whatever reason.

Maybe Hartland traps passing ships because they’re all assumed to be Hartmand’s disciples?

Hmmm.

Ah yes, the final signal. A staple of these books.

I wonder if the second version of Alis is Nodan? 🤔

So another life based operating system, BugOS this time, and another Kern by the look of things.

Name is even similar. Kern, Kott, potato, potato.

Wow, Alis is having a tough time 🤣