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Maintenance script: Expand spoiler-conscious reader companion and add reading guides

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Expand spoiler-conscious reader companion and add reading guides

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	~~<div class="ev-source">Reader’s companion to <i>[[39 Minutes\|John Evans: 39 Minutes]]</i>, based on the Revision 13 manuscript.</div>~~

	== In The Divide ==		== In The Divide ==
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	== In The Two-Body Problem ==		== In The Two-Body Problem ==
	''[[The Two-Body Problem]]'' explores protection and control, competence and companionship, and the patience required to care for living things. [[Caitlyn Evans\|Caitlyn’s]] growing work and family life approach these ideas together. See the [[The Two-Body Problem systems\|working language guide]].		''[[The Two-Body Problem]]'' explores protection and control, competence and companionship, and the patience required to care for living things. [[Caitlyn Evans\|Caitlyn’s]] growing work and family life approach these ideas together. See the [[The Two-Body Problem systems\|working language guide]].
			== Reading without a prescribed answer ==
			A useful principle can be difficult to apply when two real obligations compete. Duty to a crew and presence at home, protection of crops and the burden on growers, or reliable standards and local judgment need not produce easy choices.

			These headings are reading lenses, not an answer key. The [[Discussion questions]] page invites comparisons without disclosing decisions or endings. Readers can disagree about a character’s argument while recognising the need behind it.

Maintenance script: Add Caitlyn companion, visible book selection and reader tags

2026-10-14T17:09:44Z

Add Caitlyn companion, visible book selection and reader tags

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	== In The Divide ==		== In The Divide ==
	''[[The Divide]]'' brings duty and presence, trust in colleagues, evidence and accountability into the Evans family’s earlier life. “Keep one hand free” connects preparedness at work with being available to others. [[The Divide systems\|Heat delivery and operating limits]] make those ideas concrete.		''[[The Divide]]'' brings duty and presence, trust in colleagues, evidence and accountability into the Evans family’s earlier life. “Keep one hand free” connects preparedness at work with being available to others. [[The Divide systems\|Heat delivery and operating limits]] make those ideas concrete.

			== In The Two-Body Problem ==
			''[[The Two-Body Problem]]'' explores protection and control, competence and companionship, and the patience required to care for living things. [[Caitlyn Evans\|Caitlyn’s]] growing work and family life approach these ideas together. See the [[The Two-Body Problem systems\|working language guide]].

Maintenance script: Add spoiler-light The Divide companion and two-book navigation

2026-10-14T16:51:05Z

Add spoiler-light The Divide companion and two-book navigation

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	<div class="ev-source">Reader’s companion to <i>[[39 Minutes\|John Evans: 39 Minutes]]</i>, based on the Revision 13 manuscript.</div>		<div class="ev-source">Reader’s companion to <i>[[39 Minutes\|John Evans: 39 Minutes]]</i>, based on the Revision 13 manuscript.</div>

			== In The Divide ==
			''[[The Divide]]'' brings duty and presence, trust in colleagues, evidence and accountability into the Evans family’s earlier life. “Keep one hand free” connects preparedness at work with being available to others. [[The Divide systems\|Heat delivery and operating limits]] make those ideas concrete.

EvansphereAdmin: Focus companion on John Evans: 39 Minutes; add covers and verified Amazon links

2026-10-13T20:34:24Z

Focus companion on John Evans: 39 Minutes; add covers and verified Amazon links

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	== Humility before complex systems ==		== Humility before complex systems ==
	Characters make mistakes, need specialists, and revise their beliefs. Technology requires maintenance and judgment; competence includes recognizing limits.		Characters make mistakes, need specialists, and revise their beliefs. Technology requires maintenance and judgment; competence includes recognizing limits.
	== ~~Different perspectives~~ ==		== Evidence and physical reality ==
	~~Memory~~, ~~interpretation, partial knowledge~~, and ~~concealment~~ can ~~change how people understand~~ the ~~same event. One perspective does not automatically settle another~~.		Plants, structures, and mechanical gauges carry evidence that a clean digital report can conceal. John and his colleagues compare records with the systems those records claim to describe.

	[[Characters\|Explore these ideas through the characters →]]		[[Characters\|Explore these ideas through the characters →]]

	<div class="ev-source">Reader’s companion to <i>[[39 Minutes\|John Evans: 39 Minutes]]</i>, based on the Revision 13 manuscript.</div>		<div class="ev-source">Reader’s companion to <i>[[39 Minutes\|John Evans: 39 Minutes]]</i>, based on the Revision 13 manuscript.</div>

EvansphereAdmin: Focus companion on John Evans: 39 Minutes; add covers and verified Amazon links

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			<div class="ev-source">Reader’s companion to <i>[[39 Minutes\|John Evans: 39 Minutes]]</i>, based on the Revision 13 manuscript.</div>

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== Keep one hand free ==
Leave enough physical, emotional, and moral capacity to respond, accept help, and choose. Preparedness belongs to communities and institutions as well as individuals.
== Stop one failure from becoming five ==
Good engineering looks beyond the immediate fault. So does responsibility: the consequences of one choice can spread through a team, a family, or a public system.
== Self-sufficiency without isolation ==
Being capable does not mean doing everything alone. The stories explore cooperation that preserves the ability to question, refuse, and leave.
== Care with boundaries ==
Protection must remain accountable to the people affected. Scientific caution, uncertainty, and the uneven burdens of emergency decisions all matter.
== Humility before complex systems ==
Characters make mistakes, need specialists, and revise their beliefs. Technology requires maintenance and judgment; competence includes recognizing limits.
== Different perspectives ==
Memory, interpretation, partial knowledge, and concealment can change how people understand the same event. One perspective does not automatically settle another.

[[Characters|Explore these ideas through the characters →]]