![]() ![]() ![]() The mothdrive that permitted fast travel between star systems was an exotic technology. The heptarchate’s exotic technologies depended on the high calendar’s configurations: the numerical concordances, the feasts and remembrances, the associated system of belief. The high calendar is an axiomatic system of beliefs, concordances, and ritual observances necessary to the obtention of “exotic” technological effects that suspend or surpass the ordinary laws of physics, including faster than light travel: We know from the novel that there used to be seven ruling factions, but that one of them, the Liozh, the philosopher/ethicist caste, was eliminated for “heresy”, having tried to introduce democracy and a measure of freedom into the totalitarian regime of the high calendar and its compulsory “remembrances”. The action takes place many years before NINEFOX GAMBIT, as the novel’s hexarchate is in this story still a heptarchate. ![]() ![]() “The Battle of Candle Arc”, by Yoon Ha Lee, is a short story set in the same universe as his novel NINEFOX GAMBIT.It was first published in 2012 in Clarkesworld Magazine ( text and audio), and was later included in an anthology of his stories entitled CONSERVATION OF SHADOWS. ![]()
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