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    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

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    "I'm trying to be culturally sensitive, so don't take this the wrong way," Grace says. "Is it just me or...is Erid fascist?"

    Finally, words have been put to my persistent fear and I can no longer deny what I have been thinking for the last several days. "Yeah. Erid's fascist."

    Rocky and Grace return to Erid to find the planet struggling under the climatic impacts of astrophage. Rocky goes down to Erid alone with the singular goal of creating food for Grace, who is dying of malnutrition. However, Rocky finds that Erid isn't the same as he left it; the new government is reconfiguring life around an ethos that is focused on strengthening Erid, limiting knowledge-creation, and being hostile to outsiders--like Grace. Now Rocky must find a way to not only save Grace from starvation on his own, but do so before the fascist hive mind can realize what's going on, as its eye slowly trains on eradicating the alien lifeform.

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    What if Grace's arm needed to be amputated after he got burned getting Rocky back to his enclosure?

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    In the middle of an argument, Rocky accidentally ruptures Grace's eardrums as they head to Tau Ceti E.

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    Taste is the latest of Grace’s human obsessions. This is strange, but understandable, given the bumpy sensory organs that humans have on their tongues—tastebuds. These microscopic receptors react to chemical compounds and send electric taste signals to the brain: Sweet, sour, salty, bitter.

    The whole thing is fairly primitive to Eridians. We eat because food keeps us alive. We do not need our bodies and brains to trick us into eating, but humans are driven by neurochemical rewards.

    The problem, apparently, is that Grace’s tastebuds are currently processing Grace.

    Or: Post-scurvy and starvation, Ryland Grace could really go for a double-double

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