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HT#75: A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine (feat. Cora Buhlert)

Hugos There Podcast

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The Mystery of Arrival

The first contact part of this is is the part that really worked for me. The language and their attempts to communicate with with the tescolyne leaf fleet it comes across as almost a weapon right because they emit sounds that build on each other which cause violent nausea nausea reactions. Normally such negotiations and also even deciphering the language would take months if not years, he says. "It's all very compressed and and i think it was necessary"

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