Highly intelligent people behaving like highly intelligent people
Highly intelligent people tackle things in ways seldom seen in fiction. However, these authors have managed to capture it.
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She wants him to keep grading her papers. And no, that's not a euphemism, thankyouverymuch.
(Hermione has never had a crush before, but she knows without a doubt that this is what it feels like.)
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19 Oct 2025
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At last a challenge.
It's not the typical experience, but it has familiar notes.
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Hermione grows up as a maths whiz instead of a bookworm and tests into Arithmancy in her first year. With the help of her friends and Professor Vector, she puts her superhuman spellcrafting skills to good use in the fight against Voldemort.
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- Part 1 of Arithmancer-Verse
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04 Aug 2025
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Years one and two are well worthwhile, but after that it doesn't hold my interest.
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tran·scen·den·tal (trăn'sĕn-dĕn'tl) adj.
- Philosophy. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
- Surpassing all others; superior.
- Beyond common thought or experience.
- Mathematics. Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.
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21 Sep 2025
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When Weir is incapacitated, McKay takes command. Sheppard hates it (loves it).
"We're in a military situation here," John said.
Rodney lowered the pillow. "Whenever you say that, it just means it's a situation you want to be in charge of," he said. "Sadly for both of us, I am much too arrogant to let anybody else make my decisions for me."
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.
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29 May 2023
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"Hang on—hang on a second, if something happened out there and they—lost track of us—just how long could we be talking, here?"
No need to be familiar with the show or characters.
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Behind the scenes of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Byerly grapples with bomb threats, Council of Counts politics, fallout from a previous case, and the difficulty of maintaining a romance when one's profession blurs the lines between lovers, colleagues, witnesses, and suspects.
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30 Sep 2025
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Reads remarkably like the later Vorkosigan-verse books, at least for the first 18 chapters.
Far too many italics but you can get accustomed to ignoring them.
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