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Aliens are advanced, humanity is a backwater, deeply indebted to the aliens, and also trying to suck up where possible for survival. Lots of poverty, econ horror, emigration into circumstances that are both worse and somehow yet better. Lik

Paul loses his dad, who he was working with on a big revolutionary proof. People can still be (virtually) talked to after death, but that's meant as a short-term thing. His dad can't remember anything between visits, and it's all very obses