Timeline for What was the gambit pileup in "A Deepness in the Sky?"
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 15:47 | comment | added | Andrew | Worth noting perhaps that "my victory" means General Victory Smith | |
| Sep 11, 2022 at 22:31 | comment | added | John Meacham | @rptb1 It was established that they were already purposefully communicating with spiders by pretending to be an anonymous inventor in order to distribute technology to the spiders. This was with Nau's approval. So overt communication was already happening and the framework was in place to directly talk to the spiders via their own networks and in their language. | |
| Jul 18, 2022 at 21:47 | comment | added | Andrew | An early indication that something is up with Trixia is when Ezr says something like "Remember, you're a person" and Trixia says "Really? I'm a person?" That was Sherkaner speaking, learning that what he thought was a computer was really an enslaved person | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 6:12 | comment | added | rptb1 | @starpilotsix Yes I assume that's how it works (it must be how, really) but I feel like there's no hint of it before or when it happens, and that it's suddenly mentioned at the denoument without an explanation. A minor flaw in a great book. Thanks for the reply! | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 23:08 | comment | added | starpilotsix | @rptb1 I don't have it on hang right now but I do recall it specifically said that Trixia reached out to Underhill, after the incident involving his children's kidnapping (and he thought it was an AI at that point). At that point, the Emergents already had hooks into the developing computer networks, and so arranging a two-way communication would not be that hard assuming she had enough zipheads on her side (which it seems she did), and a more secure means through the videomancy and game helms which hid streams of data most humans couldn't visually process. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 17:18 | comment | added | rptb1 | Do you also happen to know how Underhill got two-way communication with Trixia? I've recently re-read the book and still haven't seen where this happens. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:05 | vote | accept | Megalonychidae | ||
| Aug 9, 2019 at 17:05 | comment | added | Megalonychidae | Ahhh, thank you! I was missing the 'awakening' of the translators, and their subversion by the Spiders. That makes it all make sense. | |
| Aug 6, 2019 at 22:27 | history | answered | starpilotsix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |