2025-12-27 19:51:03
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American insincerity has conquered the world.
Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk,
the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on Mars within 20 years.
Why bother returning to the orbiting chunk of rock humanity conquered half a century ago, he reasoned,
when the greater prize of the red planet lay tantalizingly in reach for his company’s mighty Starship rockets?
Fast forward to February 2026, and the world’s …
Hey, @AdaPalmer: I am starting Guy Gavriel Kay's *Written on the Dark*, and I remembered his *Tigana*, which takes place in fantasy Renaissance Italy (and involves it being conquered and occupied by other Italian historic eras, or so I interpret it).
As a scholar of the Italian Renaissance and auctorial colleague of Kay, I was wondering if you'd read it, and what you thought? I enjoyed it a lot.