![]() ![]() In his mastery of the military-sf game theory of space warfare, Jedao, whose emblem is inspired in part by the Gumiho trickster fox of Korean folklore, is the epitome not only of the strategist Shuos clan from which the general hails, but of the society’s technologies of calendars, rigorously aligned by a relay of clocktowers throughout the star systems, which operate as a consensus delusion for all the characters in the space opera. IN Yoon Ha Lee’s Revenant Gun (2018), the gripping final installment in the Machineries of Empire trilogy, an unstable genius, Jedao, is resurrected (again) to shore up the crumbling remains of a star-spanning empire, the Hexarchate, since his nonpareil cunning is counterbalanced only by his sheer unpredictability, an invaluable asset for a baroque far-future society run entirely on impossibly advanced algebra wedded to an equally accelerationist system of time. ![]()
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