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User: To whom is the book The Consuming Fire dedicated?

To whom is the book The Consuming Fire dedicated?

Assistant: There are at least two notable books titled The Consuming Fire, and the dedication depends on which one you mean:

There are (at least) two notable books titled The Consuming Fire, and the dedication depends on which one you mean: The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, from Creation to the Promised Land* (Liane M. Feldman, 2023) is dedicated to her husband, Ari. Everand The Consuming Fire* (John Scalzi, 2018; The Interdependency #2): I can’t verify the actual dedication text from publicly accessible sources right now. Scalzi has explicitly noted that many “AI” answers about it are wrong and that he located the real dedication via Amazon’s excerpt/Look Inside, but he doesn’t state the dedication in that post. Whatever

If you tell me which author/edition you meant, I’ll stick to just that one.

User: I mean the John Scalzi novel.

I mean the John Scalzi novel.

Assistant: I wasn’t able to find a reliable, publicly accessible source that actually states the real dedication for John Scalzi’s…

I wasn’t able to find a reliable, publicly accessible source that actually states the real dedication for John Scalzi’s The Consuming Fire.

What I can say with confidence (because Scalzi himself says it) is that it’s not dedicated to:

• his daughter (Athena) Whatever
• his wife (Krissy) Whatever (and a bunch of other names various “AI” tools invented) Whatever

Scalzi also notes that you can find the dedication by using Amazon’s “search inside the book” excerpt, but Amazon pages were returning errors in my environment so I couldn’t verify it directly. Whatever

If you want the quickest ground-truth: open any print/ebook copy and check the dedication page (usually just before Chapter 1).