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"These historians who talk about employing counterfactuals to bolster their theories, they're ridiculous. Because no one knows why things happen, you see? Even real history is sensitive, and for want of a nail a civilization was lost, or if our mightiest acts are as petals on a flood, or something in between, or both at once. We just don't know, and the what-ifs don't help us figure it out."
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Danielle T
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Finally, a mention of Africa...and it's enslavement (though Ibrahim recognizes this subjugation as a great inequality).
But really, it's a continent sized hole in this whole "what if the Black Plague killed off all Europeans" premise.
— Oct 08, 2026 02:32AM
But really, it's a continent sized hole in this whole "what if the Black Plague killed off all Europeans" premise.
Danielle T
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Heyyyy title drop in the aside about life stages, with "rice and salt" being between children and widowhood (it might've shown up earlier? I forget.)
— Oct 06, 2026 01:05AM
Danielle T
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The Alchemist was really "what if we speed run the scientific revolution in Samarqand" huh
— Oct 01, 2026 02:44PM
Danielle T
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Kya is a tiger and stalks a wapiti doe... which took me out because wapiti is a North American indigenous word for elk, but tigers are an Asian species unless this is part of the alt history hopping...
— Sep 09, 2026 09:20PM
Danielle T
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This is... considerably longer than our usual book club picks so it'll be a conscious move to read a little bit every day...
— Sep 02, 2026 08:10PM