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Slow Gods by Clare North

I read this twice in a row. I felt like I didn't give it the gravity it deserved the first time.

This is largely a treatise on the limited but grand power of love and acceptance with a realistic exploration of what lies outside it.

Or, a pilot who should be mad runs around known space as a natural disaster unfolds. He grows from a lost, bewildered, callous boy into ... well, more. You'll need to read it to find out.

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Chapter 39 of Stone Prophet is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Lyra arrives in a shuttle piloted by Mad Eye, who guns down the Ulkun squads that have Nicole cornered!

Nicole and her team join Lyra in the shuttle, passing Ustrina as she gets out and takes dragon form.

Mad Eye lives up to his call sign by flying the shuttle down the halls!

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@armandoFemat/115559846178009510

@armandoFemat As a fan I often tell people that Dirk Gently might actually be better than The Guide 🤔 Now I will go sit in the corner and wait for the angry comments... 😁

Anyway, to enjoy Dirk Gently start with the books, then the UK tv series, then the two graphic novels that connects it to the US series.

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With a strange virus giving colonists magic powers, they call for government aid, but warships packed to the gills with nuclear ordnance arrive! They run for the hills, totally terrified for their lives as their city is struck down as if by the wrath of an angry God!

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(Left) The cover of Sky Children, by Owen Tyme. The background is a nuclear explosion and its mushroom cloud, in some distant hills. There's a dirt road along some rocky hills leading away from it. The foreground is dominated by the dark silhouettes of another hill, some tall grass and a family of five holding hands, going left to right: girl, mother, girl, boy and father. The mother and father look down at the children, while they look up at their mother. The tallest of the children appears to be a boy in shorts, while the other two are girls of the same height, indicating they may be twins. The girls have pony tails and wear dresses. The mother wears a skirt and the father wears pants. The family holds hands. The silhouettes are highlighted by the orange light of the explosion. (Right) An explosion is fiery and bright. Someone hold up their left hand to block the light, but the light is so intense, their flesh only tinges the light a pinkish-red shade and their bones are visible, outlined with dark red lines. The following text is laid over that: He shielded his eyes with his hands, but even with his eyes closed, he could see the shadows of his finger bones, as highlighted by the monstrous, nuclear light! Temporarily blinded, tears fell from his eyes. *What more could I have done? Could we have saved more people somehow? How could I have known the consequences of setting up the navigation beacon? Why is this happening?* (Bottom) https://books2read.com/SkyChildren

Wow! The stuff of sci-fi but real! 🪐🌌🛰️
"Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/voyager-1-will-reach-one-light-day-from-earth-in-2026-here-s-what-that-means/ar-AA1S1N0y

Dec 12: What's the longest book you've ever read?

It wasn't *actually* the longest, but L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" sure *felt* the longest.

(Please understand, I was laying nauseous on a couch for a couple days. Mislabeled medication - the label said "take on an empty stomach" and when my parents called in to ask, the nurse almost panicked.)

Honestly, it's an accomplishment. The SOLE ~1K-page book I've ever read with exactly ONE semi-interesting idea in it.

12, - bodily functions?

It's 22000AD a story within a story, in Book 2 "In with the in crowd" the nobles are documenting the breakdown of society

the failure of household water and effective sewage systems led to some drastic (and instant) realignment of society's value system

There’s a copy of the Penrith Chronicles in every local library in 2451AD

a framed oil painting of one of the fictitious founders of modern day Wolfland, Brigadier Archibald (Archie) Hetherington, wearing his number 1 parade uniform, a tall majestic gentleman with a neat military hairstyle and a contemporary moustache (Brigadier is a UK rank, whereas other armies say Brigadier General). Archie is now retired, a benevolent land owner and farmer, and a strict “law and order” man

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Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics it gave her. She’s unable to plot a course home, but desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever…

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(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme. The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue. (Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text: “You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…” “No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!” (Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon