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“That was when the penny dropped,” General Alan Merriman recollected. “We all of a sudden realized that we’d left Atlantis in the control of this madman, an officer who’d already had three disciplinary hearings and who had left a trail of disobeyed orders a mile wide. That suddenly didn’t seem very smart.” The SGC quickly called together a series of high-level meetings to discuss contingency plans in case the Atlantis Expedition resisted the policy. But by then it was too late.

—April Martin, Rising: A History of the City of the Ancients, p. 114

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oh shit, this thing is EPICALLY FANTASTIC and I’m not 1/10th into it yet. Over 300k? Why am I not reading this on my kindle? Why am I reading this at all, it’s FOUR IN THE GODDAMN MORNING

oh wait, I’ve already read EVERYTHING ELSE by this writer and this was the one I saved for last. So here it goes. Thanks, karinaenolan. You’ve stolen the past three and the next two days of my LIIIIIIIIFE-uh