Think The Dying Earth with added barbarian badassery — this is some very superior genre-blending.

Popular mobilization was facilitated by strong anti-Japanese sentiment dating most immediately to 1931—many Shantungese had relatives in Manchuria.

I drop knowledge wherever I go.

However, once the bi-modes come on stream this [the power supply] will need to be bolstered by a feed at Braybrooke, just south of Market Harborough, for which reason the Department for Transport has supported the extension of overhead electrification from Kettering to Market Harborough.