{"provenance":"first-party editorial","scope":"Editorial companions grounded in cited passages from author-supplied manuscripts. These are selected close readings, not exhaustive canon audits. Paragraph references count non-empty body paragraphs in the supplied digital text. Full manuscripts are not distributed.","spoilerPolicy":"Marked spoilers omitted. Detailed discussion is a separate opt-in resource.","workId":"rising-tide","title":"Rising Tide — transformation, knowledge, and wartime limits","intro":"Rising Tide brings technological transformation and the costs of war into the same frame. This companion discusses the narrator’s altered circumstances and later debates about the response to a new weapon.","sections":[],"questions":[],"entities":[],"slug":"rising-tide","kind":"fiction"}