I'm not getting how you can say that "The advantage of being a Sensate is not at all apparent." The advantage is that one person can take on the knowledge and abilities of seven other people. Just the language thing alone is cool. Yeah, this is a pretty special group, but only Sun is really on the edge of…

What you seem to be missing in an otherwise great review is the role of violence in evolution. When the new version of some species comes up, the first damn thing it does it is try to get rid of all the other, lesser versions of itself. You say, "the sensates seem less like they’re happening to engage in violence and…