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Comment author: ete 07 September 2016 01:28:24PM *  1 point [-]

The books have different focuses, and will have different blurbs. The first book will have a Science! focused blurb since that's what it contains, and the later ones will have blurbs more appropriate to their content.

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The blurbs should fit the volume. A non-exhaustive list of possible things to emphasize:

  • First: science, rationality, agentyness, seeing the world through fresh eyes and strategic thinking.
  • Second: seeing the darkness in the world, heroism, caring, psychology, and rationality.
  • Third: maturing, realizing the stakes, making difficult moral choices, realizing you're not perfect but still trying, and rationality.
Comment author: gjm 07 September 2016 06:51:04PM -1 points [-]

Aha. Yes, I think the ESR blurb would work well for the first volume.