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  • I suppose I don’t hate the books, I’m just a bit disappointed at how mental control is such a gimmick it overshadows everything.

    This book I read with the expectation that nobody had genuine intrinsic motivation, so I saw it everywhere, but it’s not fulfilling as a reader

    Empire in decline, empire being rebuilt, politics of Terminus I’m on board with…

    The Gaia, Mule, second foundation psycore has felt cheap and not really fleshed out yet.


  • no mention of another galaxy, the hive mind was called “anti-mules” for most of the book

    really behind the machination of pushing the hivemind?

    Kinda, maybe? They do this super lazy 5 page lore dump that actually the hive mind are the parallel universe pruning robot slaves of humanity who chose this universe as the only one with human life in it as the bed of humanity, then taught the humans of gaia how to develop their psychic skills until they (after 20k+ years) became a hive mind in the last few hundred years). Apparently they can’t tell direct lies, but they can reprogram people on a whim… But every sentence in this book is unreliable narration so MAYBE, but MAYBE NOT (What a twist!)













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