Edit: Someone at TPB suggested contacting Orbit here. I just sent them a message copying what I sent to Overlook. Not sure which of them have the manuscript but it's probably best to send a reminder to both anyhow.

Definitely better to send something than nothing at all, although it might look best to keep them unique, even if that means just writing a short message. Good points to bring up are the success of Game of Thrones and the SFFWorld.com top 20 fantasy list, which you can link them to here:

http://www.sffworld.com/2015/06/the-unofficial-top-20-fantasy-series-of-sffworld-com/

So you think he came up with that whole "there are no crimes when no one is left alive"on his own?

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Wondering if they're going to share it with the rest of the Great Ordeal sorcerers if/when they reach Golgotterath or maybe even Dagliash.

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I love the theory, Coldbow, some parts of it remind me a little of Hyperion. The time travel, I'm not so sure about, that stuff is so tricky I kind of don't want Bakker to go there. At the same time, I could totally see that within Kellhus' abilities.

I definitely ascribe to the Consult and the Dunayin being connected - both begin with the axiom that life is mechanical. My personal crackpot is that the Inchoroi needed a way to rediscover the lost principles of the Tekne, the scientific study of cause and effect. They couldn't do it on Earwa, given how magic is real and belief dominates every culture. The only way to do it was to seal off a group of people, convince them magic isn't real, religion is only a tool of control, and compel them to master cause and effect for thousands of years. I'm starting to think the No-God's constant questions suggest that it was a failed prototype and the Dunyain program aims to produce a soul who can fully control the carapace. This crosses over to the Westeros thread but I wonder if this is why during Celmomas and Seswatha's Benjuka game, when he talks about building Ishual, he makes a move that seemed like an opportunity but turned into travesty - he was building a refuge but it became the mechanism for the Consult's ultimate victory. The only inconsistency with all this is that Moenghus' statements at the end of TTT suggests the Dunyain are a kind of religious order instead of a purely scientific one. Their goal is a spiritual one, to unlock/achieve the free will and meaning that most people take as a given.

I'm still not sure what to make of the gods' intercession in the Aspect Emperor trilogy. I'm inclined to think Kellhus engineered the opportunity for Yatwer to manifest in the way she has. Their absence from the first trilogy makes me think that the Inrithi gods never existed in the way their followers think but something Kellhus has done behind the scenes has caused all this stuff to happen in the second trilogy. Not sure if some of this is repetitive and I've already laid some of this out before...

You really think it was magic? I agree the whelming is unlikely but I chalked that up to suspension of disbelief, not magic. Although it would jive with the theory that the upper echelon of the pragma know the truth about magic and such.

What I really want to know WHY on earth would they call this Soylent, given the connotation it has in pop culture? I know I'm  being paranoid but that alone freaks me out about it. I feel like one day reading MSN, my eyes are going to gloss over the headline, "Man arrested for duping customers into eating human remains over a period of years."

Also, my limited exposure to the field of nutrition suggests that it's one of the most emotionally charged communities and rife with confirmation bias. I just can't trust any one source to get the cocktail right. I think I'm just gonna stick to eating fruit for breakfast, drinking tea daily, and various combinations of starch, meat, and cheese (maybe trying to cut out the cheese). Kudos to anyone legitimately reaping benefits out of this, though.

Bakker's always saying the mind doesn't have the capacity to understand what it actually is, I'm guessing he's looking to embody that in an unforgettably disturbing reveal of what the No-God is.