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 blessed with the lucrative ability to predict the future鈥攐nly to realize that the  Gift  has skipped a generation, and youre out of luck. In Elijah Kinch Spectors debut novel Kalyna the Soothsayer, the title character has to use her smarts  and a bit o stanley cup f outs stanley cup ide help  to fake her way around her lack of abilities to provide for her family. But what will happen when her deception leads her into a dangerous, high-stakes situation she might not be able to trick her way out of  Below is a description of the novel to give you a bit more context, followed by the full cover and an excerpt, both making their debut on io9 today!     Every member of Kalynas family has the Gift: the ability to see the future. For generations, they traveled the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia selling their services as soothsayers. Every child of their family is born with this Gift鈥攅veryone except Kalyna. For years, Kalyna has supported her father鈥攚hose grip on reality is straining under the weight of his confused visions of the future鈥攁nd her cruel grandmother on the strength of her wits, using informants and trickery to falsify prophecies for coin, and scrounge together a living for them all. But its getting harder every year. And poverty turns to danger when, on the strength  stanley sverige of her reputation for prophecy, Kalyna is pressed into service by Lenz, the spymaster to the prince of Rotfelsen. Lenz orders Kalyna to use her  Gift,  to uncover threats against Rotfelsens king, and holds her family hostage against  Ajzk Gab to Congress: You re Gonna Need a Warrant for That or You Know, Talk to DOJ or Something
 So it went at the climate science trial on Wednesday in a San Francisco courtroom. Well, more accurately it was a  tutorial  about the history of climate science and  the best science now available on global warming  as part of a case involving Bay Area cities suing Chevron, BP, a stanley cup nd Exxon for b stanley cup illions to help them prepare for sea level rise.     The tutorial put oil companies in a bit of a pickle. Theyve known about climate change for decades and that the oil they sell is one of the root causes, all while actively deceiving the public about the dangers it poses. Admitting that could put them on the hook in California and elsewhere as climate litigation blossoms.  It makes me so sad when people use the continued existence of science as an argument against science.  While the plaintiffs called actual climate scientists to the stand, Chevrons lawyers鈥攚ho represented the oil companies at the tutorial鈥攄ecided to go it alone, which tells you something. They proceeded to spend the day misrepresenting how scientists use the term uncertainty and cherrypicking away at old science reports.  Chevrons lawyer plucked his strategy right from the climate-denier playbook,  Shaye Wolf, a climate scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity who was at the hearing, told Earther.  He overemphasized and inflated narrow areas of uncertainty about global warmings impacts. And he bobbed and weaved his way out of acknowledging the rol stanley termos e of fossil fuels.  Lets get this uncertainty thing out of the w

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