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Mori: Oh man, we totally forgot the most interesting part in our plural link dump! Inmara Ktletaccete Fenumere have printed the first three books of their plural series The Sunspot Chronicles! It is available in an 800-page paperback, EPUB, and free PDF. According to the authors, "They follow the stories of a group of plural people who are friends of each other, as they explore the ancient generational starship that is their home."

From the back cover:

Why are we all born like this?

The Crew of the Sunspot supposedly built the ship to find or create a better world. And to preserve the diversity of the population, the Crew have utilized evolutionary algorithms to choose the genetics of each new child. The Crew, which nobody can recall seeing, or even talking to directly. The Crew, which raise the populace, teach them, and communicate with them through AI Tutors such as myself. Even I, Metabang, didn’t know who or what they were.

Until, one day, driven by a rare dysphoria that the algorithms never could remove from humanity and aided by an accommodation of my own design, my own students devised a way to confront the Crew.

The events which followed have shaken the Sunspot and uncovered vital truths that you may find important to know should we cross paths. We’ve chosen to broadcast these documents ahead of us in diplomatic hope that we will be well received, or that you will be sufficiently warned.



EDIT: Also, Team MJ Barker/Meg-John Barker have uploaded their scholarly article Plural Selves, Queer, and Comics to their website!
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