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[mnu_spreadslies]

Recently, I have been trying to learn a bit more about human literature. Your species has such a wide variety of genres... so, I would like to take this opportunity to ask. What type of books do you all enjoy the most?

I believe I would belong in the one called "science fiction".

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[tic_tech_turtle]

I'm usually drawn to non-fiction - essays, journals, and that like - but science fiction has its points.

[mnu_spreadslies]

Nonfiction-- I find scientific documentations to be fairly worthwhile. Although, a lot of my race's nonfiction works were lost or confiscated by MNU personnel.

[tic_tech_turtle]

They can be remarkably interesting, too. I once read an essay attempting to prove the existence, or at least prove the possibility of the potential existence, of psychic abilities - telekinesis, telepathy, etc. It was fascinating though ultimately implausible. He had still done his research.

[a sudden softening and quiet to his voice]

Your MNU don't sound like pleasent people.

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[mnu_spreadslies]

They were in charge of handling interracial relations. Unfortunately, they were more concerned with the human sides of those relations... my people often suffered for it.

[tic_tech_turtle]

That sounds about right...for any inter-relations. I'm sorry your people have to put up with that.

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[mnu_spreadslies]

I was in the process of trying to get them off the planet, away from the humans... twenty years of work... and then I woke up here.

I'm afraid my people will have to put up with it for some time to come.

[tic_tech_turtle]

Something will change. If it's one thing history has taught the human race, it's that nothing like that can stay that way for long.

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[mnu_spreadslies]

Yes, yes. Hopefully. I just wish I would be able to witness my race's liberation.

[tic_tech_turtle]

Maybe you will be.