I don't see how anything can be an empire without communication links between planets. Hrm. Maybe I missed something.

I mean, yes, I know he ran away and thinks his father will kill him or something. But I would still use the galactic version of the news to look them up... I know it's kind of a technophobic society, but they do have news? It's not all done by courier with time lapses, is it?

Because that--

I still don't understand why our Narrator hasn't checked on his family. When he eventually does, I am fully expecting them to be all dead.

This dude, Switch... I'm going to be very mad if he dies. But I don't like his odds.

I can tell a 22 year old wrote this. A very talented one.

There is, as is known, a language of space opera, and within it, certain tropes are common.

I'm trying to tell myself it's his unreliable narrator account, but I'm not sure I'm buying it.

It does make me feel better about Nate letting this really really obvious thing slide, however.

He had a fight with family... But like, wouldn't he want to know they're still alive? If only to see if he could stop living on the streets of a strange planet and inherit?

It could be two years, it could be fifty. Every once in a while he's like lah lah lah I just have no idea what the date is!

Next point: there's this main character, and he's lost. Lost his planet, his station, his life. But he has like zero curiosity about how much time has passed. Zero.

And western Europe appropriated the Romans.

But I mean, if it's 20k years in the future, is it realistic it would have anything we'd recognize? Idk. We don't really know enough about how people lived 20k years ago.

One: I love the idea of space classical civilization so much... But would they really just lift the same names and stuff wholesale?

If they do, I feel like there should be a reason for it. Like, their interpretation of history depends on it. Kinda like the Romans appropriated the Greeks--

So I'm reading this epic space opera series, the one I've been reading for several years, because I can't get past page 300 or so.

I love the writing but feel no sense of urgency to finish.

And a few questions rattle in my head:

That is a bad example, because enchiladas, yum. Now I want some for brunch.

I've noticed this in my book and in other peoples' it's wrong if the reader does a double take and doesn't know if it's something they knew or not.

The big picture should come in pieces. In the right order.

I will intensify my use of words like quim, maybe add swyve, and morelike, avast and amidst. And 'twas. I will put in em dashes in ways that no AI would dare--perhaps multiples per sentence--perhaps refer back to Virginia Woolf to see how that is done--

Ty for buying it!! I hope you like it! Good timing for sequel.

I was looking up nonplussed to make sure it meant what I thought--and discovered it does, but also means its opposite.

So I went with "unfazed."