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The Cleons clones plot has really turned into a sort of mind worm for me Btw “clones” is an anagram of “cleons” I really like the brother dawn/brother day/brother dusk scene. Started calling my 17 year old cat ‘brother dusk.’ Nice way to grapple with mortality.
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The parts that kinda drag are the parts that clearly borrow from Dune type fantasies. I guess fantasy is more popular so it’s a pragmatic move but still 😐
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Kidding aside, there’s something knee-jerk about the shallow foundation takes. There’s false notes and fluff to be sure, and I’d have done it differently. But this is a good treatment in the broad spirit of the original. Not a cynical one like Joss Whedon Star Trek.
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I can see why Krugman has shallow teenaged expectations unchanged by decades and a Nobel. He probably maps psychohistory to spherical cow economics. He wants fictionalized macroeconomics.
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