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Dec 10, 20246 min read
Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (2015)
Some of us are born and are told that endless possibilities for our lives await us. Others are born knowing more about their own story...
Mar 3, 20245 min read
Nothing But The Rain by Naomi Salman (2023)
"Truth is, we have no idea what's going on. After I was done scribbling my panic in all caps I calmed down and wrote out all possible...
Mar 24, 20234 min read
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy (published 2021)
In The Unfamiliar Garden, the second in a trilogy of books by Benjamin Percy, a husband and wife lose their daughter in a mushroom-filled...
Dec 18, 20225 min read
Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds (published 2019)
By the time the story of Permafrost takes place, things have gotten bad. Really bad. After a slow, barely noticed (at first) event they...
Nov 3, 20224 min read
The Seep by Chana Porter (2020)
What is The Seep? The Seep, in essence, is ultimately another, new reality, one enhanced with alien influence and energy, initially...
Oct 15, 20223 min read
The Need by Helen Phillips (2019)
"Molly presented the various fossils, doing everything in her power to engage the tour group, to get them to contemplate the fact that...
Sep 25, 20224 min read
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughn (2019)
"All kids, hungry but dumb, believing the hype. Nearly killed himself scaling a twelve-foot-chain-link fence for nothing. Nothing. Not a...
Jun 3, 20224 min read
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (1987)
"Other Oankali had gathered to watch the bubbling ground. The orange mass had grown to be about three feet across and almost perfectly...
Mar 27, 20223 min read
The Bear by Andrew Krivak (2020)
By a stretch of the imagination (which some might call escapist), there is a place untethered to the weight of the inorganic. That place...
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