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Boydy
Yeah, that's what I thought too. I put it down to the translation.
It was losing me quite a bit until:
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The whole section with the "Droplet", where they've convinced themselves it's some sort of first contact peace offering and that victory is basically a foregone conclusion, but it activates and wipes out 98% of the human space fleet in half an hour because it's so fast, hard and smooth it just flies around penetrating through the hulls of all the ships. It just fucks them all before they even understand what has happened.
Mental, I can't even grasp how he thinks up these things. That will be a tough one to do justice in the TV adaptation.
Right up there in terms of genuine jaw-dropping sections of books for me.
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