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Hmm... Joker in the first half? Bane in the second? I didn't get that vibe at all. She took on some very low-level gangsters in a very low-level part of town while figuring out how to use her own starting gadgets, and at the end found the Bat Cave, though it was abandoned and all but...
Well, if the book(s) are being discussed elsewhere, it's not being picked up on Google. This thread is still one of the highest results for 'Merciful Troubleshooter'.
I hear this a lot, and I'm not sure I can agree with it. Power fantasies need a powerful protagonist, and this book is...
I'm surprised there's not more discussion / speculation about Alice Long 2, especially given how popular the first book was in terms of sales. It was one of the best classic space opera stories I've read in a long time, and I'm very much looking forward to the sequel.
From an AI standpoint...