Recursion

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This sequel to Inversion forces a pacifist society in a pastoral, isolated universe to wrestle with the cost of self-defense. The people of Germinal live on a tiny, verdant planet where evolution has traced a slightly different path. For centuries, they have peacefully coexisted amid an ecosystem where an advancing wall of fire consumes all in its path, a perpetual cycle of destruction and renewal. That is, until everything they knew of their history was violently upended by the arrival of colonizers. Months after the events in Inversion , the people of Germinal are rebuilding, reckoning with the brutality of the invasion, and striving to absorb newcomers. But young Char, earning a reputation among her people as a capable new conciliator, wrestles with the trauma of those events and tries to rally her community to defend themselves against future attack. Her friend Graft, formerly an aide-de-camp of