A Mechanist scholar had written it. The Crucible's academic review committee had approved it. The licensed printing network had distributed it. Forty-seven copies were currently circulating in Ashenveil's university district, fourteen had reached the Academy library in Ironhold, and six had been purchased — purchased, because the print economy now supported individual sales — by citizens with no institutional affiliation who had walked into a bookshop and bought a pamphlet about domain theory the way they'd buy a bag of flour.
He hadn't authorized any of this. He hadn't been asked.
