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Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that …
Really good modern translation (idk maybe the original reads that way too) but very cool to see all those little bits that have seeped into modern scifi everywhere
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city …
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They shouldn't have gotten together at the end
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved …
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Wonderful! Very well written! The third part is pretty rough emotionally, content warning for: animal abuse, child death, suicide, police brutality, and slow painful death. The first two are much less brutal, and builds a fascinating original world, and its fun to match up details that were clearly borrowed into the fallout series :p
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The …
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This was my favorite of the series! Its between this one and the first one, they both do close up interpersonal relationships so well. I wanna hang out with them all!! I kinda wish the conflict between speaker and pei was explored a bit more, it felt like it was just left to simmer on the side due to emergency, but that gives it a bit of messy realness. Excited to see what comes next!
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a …
I liked it! After finishing the trilogy-so-far, I think the first book is my favorite (the second was my favorite for a lil bit, but the first one has been growing on me over time). That's not to say this one wasn't great! It's a real cool look at communities trying to preserve their identity and struggling with the loss of identity as they join a larger community. I'm actually real inspired to try and explore this kind of thing in a game project. I love a cozy lil community and the cozy lil community sized problems that come with it. Nothing is overwhelmingly a threat to their survival, but all the problems are about communication, selfhood, individuality, and meaning.