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They maybe can address one of those needs with that selection, but the Suns appear locked to run it back with a Big 3-led roster in their win-now mode. Allen led the league in 3-point shooting percentage in having a career year, but he has a tradeable contract. The Suns remain one of 10 NBA teams to have never won title. On Sunday, their season of championship expectations ended much sooner than planned. A fan happened to email me and asked if I had ever considered returning to the universe of “Thousandth Night”.
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The truth was that I hadn’t, but his email immediately set in process a chain of thought. Actually, it would be kind of fun to pick up those characters again – there was so much more I could say about their society and customs and universe. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. Unable to get within weapons range, Campion pursues Purslane’s ship for sixty thousand light years, during which time he and Purslane, on their separate ships, are suspended in "abeyance", a form of temporal slowdown or stasis. Despite efforts to stop the hijacked ship from reaching the concealed wormhole by local civilisations, the robot Cascade succeeds in opening the "stardam" enclosing the wormhole and travelling through it to the Andromeda Galaxy. On board Silver Wings of Morning, Hesperus reveals to Campion that while he managed to destroy Cadence before they could leave the Neume star system, Cascade survived and he and Cascade had engaged in a marathon battle, several thousand years.
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That series starts in Denver, where the Nuggets are a Western Conference-best 36-8, including 3-0 in the playoffs. Nikola Jokic, who committed an uncharacteristic seven turnovers, narrowly missed his 19th career playoff triple-double with 25 points, 20 rebounds and nine assists and Michael Porter Jr. scored 26. So, with this injury of inflammation and swelling in Leonard’s knee, Frank was asked about the team’s confidence that it’s not more serious.
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They exploded to a 35-4 advantage on the Suns in that third win without James Harden and Leonard in Phoenix’s final home game of the regular season. Durant called Vogel the team leader after Saturday’s practice. The Suns could run it back with Jones and Vogel to continue continuity with roster decision making knowing that won’t satisfy a fan base that expected much more from this team this season. The second timeline is set six million years in the future, and centers on the meeting of the Gentian Line after a galactic circuit. There is a grand family reunion planned, but before arriving at it, two shatterlings named Campion and Purslane discover that an ambush by unknown assailants has wiped out most of their Line.
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However, Phoenix got a healthy, All-NBA level season out of the 35-year-old Durant. The future first-ballot Hall of Famer averaged 27.1 points in 75 games, the most he’s played since he suffered a season-ending Achilles injury in the 2019 finals with Golden State. House of Suns alternates between the two timelines, slowly revealing how the Gentian Line was formed by Abigail six million years ago, and the current search to understand who has targeted the Gentian Line and why. There are a lot of far-future detective elements, some epic battles, and the longest chase scene since Redemption Ark. By long, I don’t mean in page count, but rather spanning 60,000 light years.
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With stasis failing, Hesperus decides to protect Purslane by remodeling himself into a stasis equipped landing pod, sacrificing his personality and memories in the process. Campion is then shown Hesperus, who still contains the still-living Purslane, and the First Machine offers to help him free her before departing. While it took some time, Colin has been back on a bounce house since the incident. While such incidents are rare, they want people to be aware of the disastrous possibility of what could happen.
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I’d been invited to contribute a story to an anthology entitled “One Million AD”, edited by Gardner Dozois. From my first encounter with HG Wells’ The Time Machine, through to Clarke’s The City & The Stars and the Urth sequence of Gene Wolfe, I have always been in thrall to the distant future. I had dabbled in far future settings with my Merlin stories, but they were set a mere 72,000 years from now – barely beyond the middle of next week, in cosmological terms. The commission allowed for something set vastly deeper into the future, and I revelled in the possibilities.
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He owns a home in Las Vegas, where he’s held a residency for the last nine years, and earlier this year, he shelled out $20.5 million for a vacation home in Hawaii. That’s what awaiting Phoenix next season, but this offseason will greatly determine if the Suns put themselves in good position to take on those conference challengers. The Suns managed to land the sixth seed because they owned the head-to-head tiebreaker over New Orleans. Looking ahead, the Suns will face an even more formidable Western Conference next season.
The galaxy is populated by numerous civilizations of humans and posthumans of widely varying levels of development. A civilization of sentient robots known as the Machine People coexists peacefully with humanity. Technologies of the era include anti-gravity, inertial damping, force fields, stellar engineering, and stasis fields. Also of note is the "Absence"—the mysterious disappearance of the Andromeda Galaxy. Even depleted, Lue had his group playing hard and with a purpose against a Suns team fighting for playoff positioning in the Western Conference. The Clippers (51-29) have two regular-season games left before the postseason starts on April 20, so at some point they hope to be whole with Leonard back in the lineup.
The plot is complex but not overly-so, for which I was grateful. In fact, the relationship of Campion and Purslane is surprisingly poignant for a hard SF epic, and I grew to like them and their machine companion Hesperus. There is also a fascinating post-human intelligence known as The Spirit of the Air which plays a big role in the final acts, along with the “disappearance” of the Andromeda Galaxy. The final third of House of Suns is a series of ever-expanding reveals that are pretty mind-blowing, and best of all, the ending actual seemed plausible and was not just a massive battle in space as often happens. It was a more philosophical approach than I had expected, and moving as well. Southern California’s allure and the Lakers’ storied history will always make the Lakers a destination for stars.
They manage to find the remains of a ship with several Gentian members still alive, and rescue them and the four enemy prisoners they had captured. Hesperus, however, is gravely injured in the process by remaining ambushers. The group escapes and make their way to the Gentian backup meeting planet, Neume, in the hope of re-grouping with any other Gentians who may have survived the ambush. Each subsequent chapter is narrated from the first-person perspective of two shatterlings named Campion and Purslane, alternating between them each chapter. Campion and Purslane are in a relationship, which is frowned upon, even punishable, by the Line.
Leonard was ruled out before the game and there was no timetable for his return, Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, said. Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said it was all about the team maintaining its composure. Interestingly, the Clippers have won both games in which Leonard was sidelined. But these were the moments why the Clippers acquired James Harden, why they added another future Hall of Famer, and why they felt good about their chances even when Leonard couldn’t play. The boy's sister picked up her last surviving brother and ran with him toward a nearby firehouse, but Doerman caught up to her and at gunpoint demanded she put the boy down.
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