Pol Pot's story was definitely my favorite one, followed by the map one. The others couldn't really keep my attention; they were either too confusing or not descriptive enough. Lionflower Hedge seemed incomplete and Winkie was weiiiird, in a not so good way. I couldn't picture the story quite clearly in my mind.
I had no idea Sith was real! He kept denying the reality of every fact in his story. He probably did that so people could google them up and learn more about them (like a couple kids i know, hehe). It scared the bejesus out of me as I read the story. The part where the little robotic dog first starts talking to her, and the tv shows those videos... eeek! I thought much more violence was going to come out of that. I almost wanted to hide under the covers. The map story fascinated me since "barbarians" and "academics" had their religions inverted. Instead of barbarians usually being characterized as the superstitious ones, who perform rituals for their gods, it was the academics instead who fit this profile. Why did they destroy their lake? I didn't quite catch what the mappers were doing out there, or what they were supposed to do. A longer version of this story would be super interesting.
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I definitely agree on wishing some of these stories had extended versions.When I get involved with the character's on a certain level, I need 100 more pages to keep me going. For these, some were so short I felt like I was getting the cliff-note version! "Lionflower Hedge" could have used at least 10 more pages. And, personally, I think all of Link's stories should have been made into novels!
Yeah the television scene kind of scared me too! When I started to read that it reminded me of the "Ring" I tell ya, that was not something that you wanted to read and then lay in your room by yourself at night!
The map people were out there to remake the world as Christ had made it originally. They wanted to return it to the Mapmaker's plan. The lake was not on the original maps so it had to be dealt with. This is the same reason they destroyed the forest and then asked their buddies in Agriculture to finish restoring the map.
That really was cool stuff with the "academics." I have to admit that last week I wanted to get ahead of the game (just goes to show how well that always works out for me!) and so I read "Another for Map" too fast to understand how cool the ideas were. Pretty interesting stuff that the students wanted to become closer to God by restoring the land, rather than, say, a few evangelists who wish to better the world through its people.
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