#liff

So, Miranda extracts Liff from the simulation at the end.

Ok, which Liff.

Straight from the no-Miranda simulation? That girl doesn't remember Miranda, isn't the girl Miranda got attached to, not really, and is going to be completely terrified.

Break into a new loop to slowly introduce her to the situation? I guess it could work but it's still not the girl Miranda started momming.

Break into the simulation, extract all the data to revive Book!Liff? The one who was becoming increasingly aware of how broken the simulation was? Well, it certainly achieves Miranda's real goal of getting her friend back, but I'm not sure it achieves her stated goal / justification of getting someone who can speak for all the other simulated colonists as to whether they'd like to be de-virtualized. Especially if the memories from the iteration where the Liff born at the very beginning of the simulated history are included.

We know MIranda failed a lot, we know she and de-sim'd Liff are close, we know that Miranda has cryptobiote data on desim'd Liff.

Damnit Tchaikovsky, there's a novella easy about what happened between 12.8 and 12.9!

I suppose, if Tchaikovsky comes back to the series and we're quite lucky Liff will be involved in book 4. Helena Holsten Lain from Children Of Time epilogue was a Children Of Ruin lead, after all.