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Lindsey Dorcus
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Malka Older
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INVESTIGATOR MOSSA AND SCHOLAR PLEITI REUNITE TO SOLVE A NEW MYSTERY IN THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE COZY SPACE-OPERA DETECTIVE MYSTERY THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, WHICH HUGO AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR CHARLIE JANE ANDERS CALLED “AN UTTER TRIUMPH.”
Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity’s exodus from Earth.
But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.
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On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sci-fi missing person mystery
- De Michael G Kurilla en 11-20-23
De: Malka Older
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The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
- De: Malka Older
- Narrado por: Lindsey Dorcus
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin―who’s up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been accused of plagiarism on the eve of her defense―Pleiti agrees to investigate the matter. Even if she has to do it without Mossa, her partner in more ways than one. Even if she’s still reeling from Mossa’s sudden isolation and bewildering rejection. Yet what appears to be a case of an attempted reputational smearing devolves into something decidedly more dangerous―and possibly deadly.
De: Malka Older
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Infomocracy
- A Novel
- De: Malka Older
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 352
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 354
It's been 20 years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At heart, this novel is a political thriller
- De Midwestbonsai en 09-12-16
De: Malka Older
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Rakesfall
- De: Vajra Chandrasekera
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages.
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Space Opera
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,175
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,180
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented - something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix - part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a lot of story (non-specific SPOILER ALERT)
- De Erik B. en 05-22-18
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Floating Hotel
- De: Grace Curtis
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury—and an absolute magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as: Why are there love poems in the lobby inbox? How many Imperial spies are currently on board? What is the true purpose of the Problem Solver’s conference? And perhaps most pertinently—who is driving the ship?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great little sci-fi mystery
- De Jon McIntosh en 03-25-24
De: Grace Curtis
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Lake of Darkness
- De: Adam Roberts
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon...by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine. Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No one believes him.Everyone knows that things go into black holes; nothing comes out. But something inexplicable has been happening to Raine, and whatever it is seems to be spreading.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Simple prose, mind bending plot
- De DrEHarris en 02-10-25
De: Adam Roberts
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Murder by Memory
- De: Olivia Waite
- Narrado por: Blair Baker
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Near the topmost deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hope This Series Takes Off!
- De Katrina en 04-16-25
De: Olivia Waite
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Exordia
- De: Seth Dickinson
- Narrado por: Sulin Hasso
- Duración: 26 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. While humanity reels from disaster, she must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- De Adam C. Shay en 02-04-24
De: Seth Dickinson
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Remember You Will Die
- A Novel
- De: Eden Robins
- Narrado por: Henriette Zoutomou
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.
De: Eden Robins
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Metal from Heaven
- De: August Clarke
- Narrado por: Vico Ortiz
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them. Marney Honeycutt, a luster-touched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration ruined it for me
- De Bob Winning en 02-09-25
De: August Clarke
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The Siege of Burning Grass
- De: Premee Mohamed
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers.
De: Premee Mohamed
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The Book Censor's Library
- A Novel
- De: Bothayna Al-Essa, Ranya Abdelrahman - translator, Sawad Hussain - translator
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish-allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The ending!
- De laurie en 01-29-25
De: Bothayna Al-Essa, y otros
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
- De: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrado por: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins—resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories—have only three unbreakable vows. First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade. Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. The third and the simplest: once you accept a job, you must carry it out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funnier and lighter than I expected
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 02-17-25
De: P. Djèlí Clark
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In Ascension
- De: Martin MacInnes
- Narrado por: Freya Miller
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 79
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms—what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected story
- De Steve Mowe en 03-10-25
De: Martin MacInnes
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The Man Who Saw Seconds
- De: Alexander Boldizar
- Narrado por: Tony Beltran
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 50
Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet, causing another man to die in his place. Government agencies become aware of Preble's gift, a manhunt ensues, and their ambitions shift from law enforcement to military R&D. Preble will do whatever it takes to protect his family, but as events spiral out of control, he must weigh the cost of his gift against the loss of his humanity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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RUINOUS NARRATOR !!!
- De M en 01-01-25
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Foundryside
- A Novel
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Tara Sands
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,490
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,214
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,213
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic - the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience - have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Parts & Sums
- De CaffineFreeJAVA en 05-07-19
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The Ministry of Time
- A Novel
- De: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrado por: George Weightman, Katie Leung
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,427
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,331
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,331
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More than the sum of its parts but…
- De L. Williams en 05-17-24
De: Kaliane Bradley
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Jim Cira
- 01-21-25
I love this series!
Another fantastic effort by Older and the characters are even better developed! I look forward to the next book!
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Total1 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución1 out of 5 stars
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Historia1 out of 5 stars
- Colin Priest
- 01-12-25
Boring
I gave up after the first chapter which was as exciting as a room full of accountants. The author can’t hold the reader’s attention and s in need of an editor to remove all of the pointless details
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