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da svenster

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4. i just recently started reading her stuff...
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 03:44 PM
12 hrs ago

working through the patternist books (on "clay's ark&quot . really intrigued by her writing and looking forward to hitting her parable novels.

like so many authors, she left us too young (another being terry pratchett).

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i just recently started reading her stuff... da svenster 12 hrs ago #4
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