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It turns out, unbeknownst to the Tiamatans, the sybils are actually networked into an interstellar supercomputer which gives them access to all the knowledge of a grander, fallen empire that preceded the current one.
Archive 2008-09-01 Erika Nelson 2008
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It turns out, unbeknownst to the Tiamatans, the sybils are actually networked into an interstellar supercomputer which gives them access to all the knowledge of a grander, fallen empire that preceded the current one.
The Snow Queen Erika Nelson 2008
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I really enjoyed reading about the divide between the Summers and Winters, the sybils and how they were viewed by the two different peoples and the discovery of what sybils were as well as the revelation about the source of the water of life.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2010
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Ever since they were young, Moon and Sparks have dreamed of becoming sybils, whom the Summers respect for their ability to enter into a trance and answer questions posed to them truly.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2010
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I really enjoyed reading about the divide between the Summers and Winters, the sybils and how they were viewed by the two different peoples and the discovery of what sybils were as well as the revelation about the source of the water of life.
Archive 2010-01-01 Kristen 2010
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If we are talking older stuff Elizabeth Lowell back when she wrote romance and was like my favore evah ... le sigh read the "Only" series (yeah I know the covers are in need of fixing really you don't want me to explain): Only His (1991) a sybils fave
Anthology - A Western Winter Wonderland Nalini Singh 2008
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Ever since they were young, Moon and Sparks have dreamed of becoming sybils, whom the Summers respect for their ability to enter into a trance and answer questions posed to them truly.
Archive 2010-01-01 Kristen 2010
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In 1826 he traveled to Italy with a commission from Sir Thomas Lawrence to make copies of some of the Michel Angelo sybils in the Sistine Chapel.
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Her priestesses were famous astrologers, whose prophecies were circulated throughout the Roman empire and even rivaled the pronouncements of the Cumaean sybils.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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It is surprising, in fact, that nobody has yet written a cultural history of advice, from Greek sybils to modern-day pundits, experts, agony aunts and advisors.
Archive 2007-01-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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