User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass Effect Book Club -- Special Edition: Foundation/@comment-4953843-20140329034922/@comment-4953843-20140329064700

deception and paragon lol are on separate levels of canon raep as they were written by people foreign to the franchise.

F9 has no such excuse.

you will rarely see me bitching on issues like this as for the most part most perceived inconsistencies can be handwaved by extenuating circumstances. the fact i was the one transcribing all foundation issues (except #1) to the wiki should alert you to how bad the situation is. miranda's knowledge of brooks = "rasa" as opposed to "hope lilium" is small fry (and can be fanwanked for explanations) compared here.

of course if any dev explanations come up to account for the discrepancies i would be more than happy to shut up and make trivia notes about it.