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  • (Worst) Empire (Empire, volume 1) by Orson Scott Card

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 21 14:10:06 2025
    Empire (Empire, volume 1) by Orson Scott Card

    America! Beset by conspiracy, assassination, and civil war!
    Worst of all, somewhere a French intellectual may be laughing
    at America! Hon hon hon!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/till-all-success

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Tue Jan 21 08:27:10 2025
    On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:10:06 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (James
    Nicoll) wrote:


    Empire (Empire, volume 1) by Orson Scott Card

    America! Beset by conspiracy, assassination, and civil war!
    Worst of all, somewhere a French intellectual may be laughing
    at America! Hon hon hon!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/till-all-success

    I believe I read both of these.

    Thanks for confirming that they are based on a computer game. Which I
    have never heard of, never mind played. But that may have given it a
    certain Oomph! in the marketplace.

    Interestingly, I seem to remember it differently. But it's been a long
    time since I read it.
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    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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