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Typo: "It had been a mistaking..." "Mistake," of course.

No one can leave the airship... Unless they have wings. Pay attention to the Koth, Clarke and Styles! That false assumption might lead you down a wrong path.

Speaking of assumptions, ask the chef if it was his idea to mix the spices or who he got the base recipe from, guys. One's "first time" making an unfamiliar dish - especially for those already familiar - isn't the time to get creative.

Or, it really was an accident and I'm just searching for threads.

Until the end of the chapter I figured Justin's body was a biological form and that was a work around for power pack failure. Nope. On the other hand, I was still wrong about the AI's having a frustrating lack of direct observation and data collection. At least for Mid-Earth. As you've, mentioned a partially discharged power pack would totally die on a second transit, there's a potential problem with Palanor... One can assume the AIs have human agents to go there. Not as trustworthy as an AI shard, with fallible human memory, but better than nothing.

No more letting Mid-Earth and Palinor annihilate themselves? That's not ominous. Is...is this the backdoor prequel to "No Adults Allowed?" 😜

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Well, that was a silly typo in the opening line. Thanks for pointing it out - have fixed.

Ha! I think NAA is the only book I've written to date which doesn't involve inter-dimensional travel! It's probably more like Max-Earth is what happens if AI turns out to be quite pleasant instead of NAA's homicidal helicopter parent.

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