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Nash and Nate have finished the task set before them by their hataali and have set their foot on the path to healing. Neither one knows what to expect, however, and Nash does have a few concerns about their future. But those will have to wait as the tribal council has more important things for them to do when they get back to Vegas: deal with a bunch of organ-jackers who have been preying on the young women of several of the local tribes. Then, of course, there's still the problem Nate's been having with the good folks of Raycon Corporation, who really want a look inside his head.

More than 65 years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the Eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries before the Trojan War, populating it with teachers and children from throughout human history and committing it to building a society based on the principles of Plato's Republic. Among the city's children was Pytheas, secretly the god Apollo in human form.

The kompani see none as an enemy, and yet few as friend. The kompani exist in many places, living quietly in the shadows, thriving off the bounty that others have no wit to secure, nor skill to defend. Their private history is unwritten; their recall rooted in dance and dream. The Clan Korval is in many ways the opposite of the kompani. The interstellar trading clan is wealthy in enemies, and fortunate in friends. Korval protects itself with vigor, and teaches even its youngest children the art of war

تعد بابل عملاً خياليًّا تأمليًّا، ومن ثم، تقع أحداثها في نسخة خيالية من مدينة أوكسفورد في ثلاثينيات القرن التاسع عشر التي تغير تاريخها تمامًا بسبب العمل بالفضة (سنسوق المزيد خلال وقت قصير). مع ذلك، حاولت الالتزام، قدر المُستطاع، بدقة السجل التاريخي في وصف حياة أوكسفورد في العصر الفيكتوري، وبالاكتفاء بتقديم قدر من المغالطات فقط حين يخدم ذلك الرواية. وفيما يتعلق بالمراجع الخاصة بأوكسفورد في بدايات القرن التاسع عشر، اعتمدت على الدليل والمرجع التاريخي لمدينة أوكسفورد (1878) الذي كتبه جيمس جيه مور،...