On Heart, there are logistically-two Earths on two separate continents both contemplating the same task; namely, the import of fiction from offworld. Both of them are women, and both are supported by their Skies in this task; however, one is Eravian, and one is Anadyne. 

The Eravian is a scout for a major publishing house and is looking to sell new books, poetry, and hypertext works in translation. Her name is, as best as can be translated, "Crystal." She has just recieved a condensed data dump from a contact at the Eravian Offworld Embassy containing several hundred gigabytes of offworld material; her shipment of hardcopies came in yesterday.

The Anadyne's name is Pigeon. She is part of Snowblossom's polycule. Snowblossom, being the Sanctified of the entire Anadyne Union, has better things to do with her time than read alien fiction, but she's not above placing one of her own Skies as one of the first readers for works intended to be published in the Anadyne Union. Pigeon leapt at the opportunity, as she loves spending all day curled up with a good book; and so she is officially the Senior Reader in charge of recommendations to the Council of Reflections. A heavy responsibility, but as Snowblossom's Sky she is very used to this sort of thing. She has a slightly different data dump than Crystal does, but many of the works are the same. 

Crystal and Pigeon open their readers at the same time, and begin to read. 

What's in the slush pile?

On Heart, there are logistically-two Earths on two separate continents both contemplating the same task; namely, the import of fiction from offworld. Both of them are women, and both are supported by their Skies in this task; however, one is Eravian, and one is Anadyne. 

The Eravian is a scout for a major publishing house and is looking to sell new books, poetry, and hypertext works in translation. Her name is, as best as can be translated, "Crystal." She has just recieved a condensed data dump from a contact at the Eravian Offworld Embassy containing several hundred gigabytes of offworld material; her shipment of hardcopies came in yesterday.

The Anadyne's name is Pigeon. She is part of Snowblossom's polycule. Snowblossom, being the Sanctified of the entire Anadyne Union, has better things to do with her time than read alien fiction, but she's not above placing one of her own Skies as one of the first readers for works intended to be published in the Anadyne Union. Pigeon leapt at the opportunity, as she loves spending all day curled up with a good book; and so she is officially the Senior Reader in charge of recommendations to the Council of Reflections. A heavy responsibility, but as Snowblossom's Sky she is very used to this sort of thing. She has a slightly different data dump than Crystal does, but many of the works are the same. 

Crystal and Pigeon open their readers at the same time, and begin to read. 

What's in the slush pile?

On Heart, there are logistically-two Earths on two separate continents both contemplating the same task; namely, the import of fiction from offworld. Both of them are women, and both are supported by their Skies in this task; however, one is Eravian, and one is Anadyne. 

The Eravian is a scout for a major publishing house and is looking to sell new books, poetry, and hypertext works in translation. Her name is, as best as can be translated, "Crystal." She has just recieved a condensed data dump from a contact at the Eravian Offworld Embassy containing several hundred gigabytes of offworld material; her shipment of hardcopies came in yesterday.

The Anadyne's name is Pigeon. She is part of Snowblossom's polycule. Snowblossom, being the Sanctified of the entire Anadyne Union, has better things to do with her time than read alien fiction, but she's not above placing one of her own Skies as one of the first readers for works intended to be published in the Anadyne Union. Pigeon leapt at the opportunity, as she loves spending all day curled up with a good book; and so she is officially the Senior Reader in charge of recommendations to the Council of Reflections. A heavy responsibility, but as Snowblossom's Moon she is very used to this sort of thing. She has a slightly different data dump than Crystal does, but many of the works are the same. 

Crystal and Pigeon open their readers at the same time, and begin to read. 

What's in the slush pile?

On Heart, there are logistically-two Earths on two separate continents both contemplating the same task; namely, the import of fiction from offworld. Both of them are women, and both are supported by their Skies in this task; however, one is Eravian, and one is Anadyne. 

The Eravian is a scout for a major publishing house and is looking to sell new books, poetry, and hypertext works in translation. Her name is, as best as can be translated, "Crystal." She has just recieved a condensed data dump from a contact at the Eravian Offworld Embassy containing several hundred gigabytes of offworld material; her shipment of hardcopies came in yesterday.

The Anadyne's name is Pigeon. She is part of Snowblossom's polycule. Snowblossom, being the Sanctified of the entire Anadyne Union, has better things to do with her time than read alien fiction, but she's not above placing one of her own Skies as one of the first readers for works intended to be published in the Anadyne Union. Pigeon leapt at the opportunity, as she loves spending all day curled up with a good book; and so she is officially the Senior Reader in charge of recommendations to the Council of Reflections. A heavy responsibility, but as Snowblossom's Moon she is very used to this sort of thing. She has a slightly different data dump than Crystal does, but many of the works are the same. 

Crystal and Pigeon open their readers at the same time, and begin to read. 

What's in the slush pile?

On Heart, there are logistically-two Earths on two separate continents both contemplating the same task; namely, the import of fiction from offworld. Both of them are women, and both are supported by their Skies in this task; however, one is Eravian, and one is Anadyne. 

The Eravian is a scout for a major publishing house and is looking to sell new books, poetry, and hypertext works in translation. Her name is, as best as can be translated, "Crystal." She has just recieved a condensed data dump from a contact at the Eravian Offworld Embassy containing several hundred gigabytes of offworld material; her shipment of hardcopies came in yesterday.

The Anadyne's name is Pigeon. She is part of Snowblossom's polycule. Snowblossom, being the Sanctified of the entire Anadyne Union, has better things to do with her time than read alien fiction, but she's not above placing one of her own Skies as one of the first readers for works intended to be published in the Anadyne Union. Pigeon leapt at the opportunity, as she loves spending all day curled up with a good book; and so she is officially the Senior Reader in charge of recommendations to the Council of Reflections. A heavy responsibility, but as Snowblossom's Moon she is very used to this sort of thing. She has a slightly different data dump than Crystal does, but many of the works are the same. 

Crystal and Pigeon open their readers at the same time, and begin to read. 

What's in the slush pile?

On Heart, there are logistically-two Earths on two separate continents both contemplating the same task; namely, the import of fiction from offworld. Both of them are women, and both are supported by their Skies in this task; however, one is Eravian, and one is Anadyne. 

The Eravian is a scout for a major publishing house and is looking to sell new books, poetry, and hypertext works in translation. Her name is, as best as can be translated, "Crystal." She has just recieved a condensed data dump from a contact at the Eravian Offworld Embassy containing several hundred gigabytes of offworld material; her shipment of hardcopies came in yesterday.

The Anadyne's name is Pigeon. She is part of Snowblossom's polycule. Snowblossom, being the Sanctified of the entire Anadyne Union, has better things to do with her time than read alien fiction, but she's not above placing one of her own Skies as one of the first readers for works intended to be published in the Anadyne Union. Pigeon leapt at the opportunity, as she loves spending all day curled up with a good book; and so she is officially the Senior Reader in charge of recommendations to the Council of Reflections. A heavy responsibility, but as Snowblossom's Moon she is very used to this sort of thing. She has a slightly different data dump than Crystal does, but many of the works are the same. 

Crystal and Pigeon open their readers at the same time, and begin to read. 

What's in the slush pile?