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Zara-Arletis [2017-01-20 03:31:27 +0000 UTC]

I like your characterization of Grace. It's so easy to slip into stereotypes when writing female characters (I think), especially with strong female characters. You did a great job describing the tense-but-boring wait and see situation. As a reader, I felt like I wanted something to hurry up and happen but at the same time, not really because I can't imagine anything good coming out of this situation. 

The technology at play here is also well defined. You give us a good general description and rationalization for why things work as you have written them, but you don't belabor the point or bog down the text with lots of specific tech jargon. It's a hard balance to find in scifi, especially when you want the world and actions to be logical and for the reader to 'get' it but don't want to take up pages with explanations. I've read some scifi authors that I just skip chunks of because it's a lot of tech and doesn't move the story a bit. Do you research existing and theoretical technology when writing? It reads like you do (logically), but then, I don't know that much about actual or potential militaristic space technology xD 

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