sharon shinn your books age SO POORLY

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(spoilers for general premise of the angel series)

THE ANGELS

who were created by space travelers for terraforming purposes using sophisticated genetic engineering (but they don’t know that, they totally think they’re angels)

HAVE AN ANCIENT AND TO-THEM-MYSTERIOUS MACHINE THEY LISTEN TO MASSES ON

AND IT IS A CD PLAYER

HANG ON AND LET ME PUT THAT IN BOLDFACE, THIS’LL TAKE LIKE ONE SECOND

CD PLAYER

I am from the future where we balance checkbooks and think that’s pretty great.

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In this specific book there's a guy who's an expert in steam-powered engines, who's trying really hard to invent the car, and he is able to figure out and repair the broken CD player in less than eight hours! Also, though the CD player is hundreds of years old, when it broke, it was because the battery had died! CD PLAYERS DON'T LAST VERY LONG, OKAY, THEY'VE GOT TINY FRAGILE MOVING PARTS

And they only just started the industrial revolution, but people use the word "electronics." And the heroine finds an ancient tome about space travel, and it uses the word "genetics," and she understands this.

So, uh, this is not exactly the Steerswoman series.

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(It occurs to me several days later that the previous comment contained a spoiler, so I edit it out:)

In this specific book there's a guy who's an expert in steam-powered engines, who's trying really hard to invent the car, and he is able to figure out and repair the broken CD player in less than eight hours! Also, though the CD player is hundreds of years old, when it broke, it was because the battery had died! CD PLAYERS DON'T LAST VERY LONG, OKAY, THEY'VE GOT TINY FRAGILE MOVING PARTS

And they only just started the industrial revolution, but people use the word "electronics." And the heroine finds an ancient tome about space travel, and it uses the word "genetics," and she understands this.