1/ you want extended meanings connected by strings? ok, harrump, fine The Dogs split into two phyles at an event called the Discord, then retired to two separate groups of asteroids to run their own distinct societieshttps://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1004472864492408832 …
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2/ The event that split them is called, as I said, "the Discord", which is also the name of an apple that Eris gave to a feast of the gods. ...in Greek legend.
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3/ The asteroids that the Dogs went to are not in the main belt, but are located in Jupiter's orbit, at the L-4 and L-5 points. These two clusters of asteroids are called the "Greek" and the "Trojan" asteroids clusters.
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4/ The Blue phyle, the more rational, calm, intellectual tribe is in the Greek trojans. The Orange phyle, the more militaristic tribe is in the Trojan ...ahem...trojans.
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5/ There are thus three societies in 2074 beyond Earth: * Aristillus * Blues * Oranges There is also a theme about the three ways to order society: * autonomy * government * family These map onto the societies. There are additional theologic and mythic correlations
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6/ ...but all of this is hidden, and never actually mentioned. It's just there if you want to read it a second (or fifth) time and start to wonder at certain coincidences.
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7/ I quite enjoyed a review at Amazon. Something like "this was interesting, and not explicitly stated ... I bet it wasn't intended"pic.twitter.com/BFtmeGPX37
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8/ YES, I TOOK SIX YEARS TO WRITE THIS AND HAD 90 FILES OF NOTES, AND THE INTERESTING BIT SOMEHOW WASN'T PLANNED BY ME / ESCAPED MY NOTICE GOOD TAKE
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The fact that you engaged explicitly and coherently with the potential failure modes of Aristillus as a model was what, for me, set your work significantly above most libertarian fiction. I mean, it was damn good fun anyway, but that was what to my mind made it special.
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thank you! I find utopian fiction to be boring. Everything has failure modes; let's look at them!
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