Off-Grid
In which Padi discusses her day with a friend.
If the authors do more stories in the Redlands, they have some places they can start.
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Off-Grid
In which Padi discusses her day with a friend.
If the authors do more stories in the Redlands, they have some places they can start.
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Colemeno Port
In which Shan yos’Galan receives news of kin.
I’m not exactly surprised by the revelation about Trader Isfelm’s family; in fact, though I didn’t specifically see it coming, it had something of a feeling of inevitability about it as it unfolded.
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Colemeno Port
Great Hall
In which it may be accounted misfortune to lose one kinsperson, but two looks like carelessness.
Betya seelyFaire’s account of her ancestor’s reasons for coming to the Redlands have a noticeable resonance with Dyoli’s reasons for doing likewise.
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Colemeno
Portmaster’s Office
In which the Redlands prepare to welcome visitors.
I can see several potential problems with the Warden’s plans to keep the off-worlders and Civilization at arm’s length.
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Civilization
In which it’s too late to keep hiding under a bush.
This might be the last appearance in the book of the word “vas’dramliz”, the Liaden word for the “small talents”, so I’m going to take this opportunity to share an observation: given that we know what “dramliz” means, vas’ must be the part of the word that signifies “small” or “lesser” — so it’s curious that we know of at least three Liaden surnames with the same prefix. Mae Nir vas’Urbil, in “Degrees of Separation”, is a chef, which might suggest that families with that prefix tend toward lower class jobs. (Menolly vas’Anamac is a scout and Kin Jal vas’Tezin an appendage of the Department, so we don’t have any idea of their families’ social status.)
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Off-Grid
In which the Haosa welcome new arrivals.
We learn a bunch about life Off-Grid in this chapter.
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Civilization
In which Bentamin receives some good news from his aunt.
The Trade Council meeting shows that Shan was right about there being opportunities for trade in the Redlands System: even if they don’t manage to set anything up in the way of physical trade goods, they have something to offer in the way of up-to-date information about routes and conditions in the wider galaxy.
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