follow your star

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

-- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

A World Trimmed with Fur

A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule by Jonathan Schlesinger

An interesting look at a complex of issues in Qing rule.

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Inverse square law

The fun of working out how the heroine's powers work.

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