John Griogair BellMay 5
“Usually he felt a twinge when he realized that, but for some affliction he didn’t understand, these people were the same as he.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/05/05/usually-he-felt-a-twinge-when-he-realized-that-but-for-some-affliction-he-didnt-understand-these-people-were-the-same-as-he/ #affliction #ApocalypticDystopian #ApocalypticFiction #BacteriaFiction #BacteRiesRomansNouvellesEtc #book #Classics #ContemporaryLiteratureFiction #didnTUnderstand #felt #fiction #GhostFiction #horror #HorrorFiction #HorrorTales #LosAngelesCalifFiction #MovieGameTieInFiction #nouvelles #Novellas #PandemicsFiction #PandeMiesRomansNouvellesEtc #peopleSame #quote #realized #RichardMatheson #ScienceFiction #shortStories #TV #twinge #usually #VampireFiction #vampires #VampiresFiction #VampiresRomansNouvellesEtc
John Griogair BellApr 27
Seveneves https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/27/seveneves/ #AmericanScienceFiction #AmericanScienceFiction21stCentury #ApocalypticDystopian #book #CatastrophesRomansNouvellesEtc #ColoniesSpatialesRomansNouvellesEtc #disasters #DisastersFiction #EarthPlanet #EarthPlanetFiction #endOfTheWorld #EndOfTheWorldFiction #EspaceExtraAtmospheRiqueExplorationRomansNouvellesEtc #ExplorationOfOuterSpace #fantasy #fiction #FictionDisaster #FictionDystopian #FictionFantasyEpic #FictionLiterary #FictionScienceFictionHardScienceFiction #FictionScienceFictionGeneticEngineering #FictionScienceFictionSpaceExploration #FictionThrillersSuspense #FictionThrillersTechnological #FictionWomen #FICTIONScienceFictionApocalypticPostApocalyptic #FictionClassics #FictionScienceFictionSpaceOpera #fictionalWork #FinDuMondeRomansNouvellesEtc #HabileteSDeSurvieRomansNouvellesEtc #HardScienceFiction #literaryFiction #MaryRobinetteKowal #mystery #NealStephenson #Novels #OuterSpace #OuterSpaceExplorationFiction #Pioneers #PioneersFiction #PionniersRomansNouvellesEtc #PopularFiction #review #romans #ScienceFiction #SpaceColonies #SpaceColoniesFiction #SpaceOperas #survival #SurvivalFiction #TPolyphilus #TerreRomansNouvellesEtc #ThrillersCrime
John Griogair BellDec 29
Absolution https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/29/absolution/ #ActionAndAdventureFiction #AdventureFiction #alienation #ApocalypticDystopian #AreaX #artificialIntelligence #Biodiversity #book #ClimateChange #conservation #conspiracy #control #Dystopian #Environment #ExpeDitionsScientifiquesRomansNouvellesEtc #FaculteSPsychiquesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #FictionLiterary #FictionScienceFiction #FictionHorror #future #General #HorrorGeneral #HorrorLiteratureFiction #JeffVanderMeer #Literary #literaryFiction #MissingPersonsFiction #mystery #MysteryThriller #nature #Novels #PersonnesDisparuesRomansNouvellesEtc #PostApocalyptic #PsychicAbilityFiction #QuestsExpeditionsFiction #QueTeRomansNouvellesEtc #review #romans #sciFi #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionGeneral #ScientificExpeditionsFiction #ScientistsFiction #secrets #SouthernReach #SpeculativeFiction #SuspenseFiction #Sustainability #TPolyphilus #ThrillersSuspense #ThrillersFiction #Transformative
John Griogair BellNov 18, 2025

“Something awful is going to happen something awful has happened something awful is going to happen again⁠”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/11/18/something-awful-is-going-to-happen-something-awful-has-happened-something-awful-is-going-to-happen-again%e2%81%a0/

#apocalypticDystopian #awful #babylove #book #going #goingTo #happen #happenAgainE281A0 #happened #horror #horrorFiction #iSBelle #lgbtqRomance #lgbtqiaFiction #paranormalFiction #quote #resurrectionFiction #resurrectionRomansNouvellesEtc #romance #something #somethingAwful #teenYoungAdultLgbtqRomance #teenYoungAdultScienceFictionDystopianRomance #teensYaLgbtq #teensYaPopularFiction #yaFiction #zombiesFiction #zombiesRomansNouvellesEtc

John Griogair BellSep 9, 2025

“Stories such as these were dismissed—unless legend took seed and sprouted religion.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/09/stories-such-as-these-were-dismissed-unless-legend-took-seed-and-sprouted-religion/

#ApocalypticDystopian #book #dismissed #dystopianFiction #Dystopias #EpicFiction #fiction #FictionDystopian #FictionScienceFictionActionAdventure #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #FICTIONScienceFictionApocalypticPostApocalyptic #HughHowey #IntraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #legend #PopularFiction #postApocalypticScienceFiction #quote #religion #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #sprouted #stories #SubterraneanCivilization #SubterraneanCivilizationFiction #suchAsThese #SurvivalFiction #TheSiloSaga #tookSeed #unless

John Griogair BellAug 12, 2025

“We’re vampires, babe. We gotta get a little hazy with our morals.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/12/were-vampires-babe-we-gotta-get-a-little-hazy-with-our-morals/

#aLittle #ApocalypticDystopian #babe #book #fantasy #gottaGet #hazy #Honeybloods #horror #ISBelle #LGBTQIAFiction #morals #ParanormalUrban #quote #romance #ScienceFictionFantasy #TeenYoungAdult #TeensYAPopularFiction #vampires #YAFiction

Tiffany E. TaylorMay 21, 2025

Butch/Femme Fiction Books: Apocalyptic/Dystopian.

#lesfic #sapphicbooks #butchfemmefiction #apocalypticdystopian #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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John Griogair BellMay 13, 2025

“He lost himself in what the untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layers and layers ground to fine dust.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/13/he-lost-himself-in-what-the-untold-years-had-done-the-ablation-of-molecules-and-lives-layers-and-layers-ground-to-fine-dust/

#ablation #ApocalypticDystopian #book #civilization #done #dystopianFiction #fiction #fineDust #ground #HughHowey #IntraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #layers #lives #lostHimself #molecules #mystery #PopularFiction #postApocalypticScienceFiction #quote #revolutions #RevolutionsFiction #ReVolutionsRomansNouvellesEtc #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #Sheriffs #SheriffsFiction #ShérifsRomansNouvellesEtc #Silo #subterranean #SubterraneanFiction #ThrillersCrime #UndergroundAreas #UndergroundAreasFiction #untoldYears #ZonesSouterrainesRomansNouvellesEtc

"He lost himself in what the untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layers and layers ground to fine dust." - The Hermetic Library Blog

He lost himself in what the untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layers and layers ground to fine dust. Hugh Howey, Wool [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “Toiler of ages, Culling sweetness with labor, I thy disciple” The Slavic Myths “Be of good cheer. The hour of your […]

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John Griogair BellDec 2, 2024

Titanium Noir

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/12/02/titanium-noir/

#ApocalypticDystopian #Betrayal #BetrayalFiction #book #ClassesSocialesRomansNouvellesEtc #conspiracies #ConspiraciesFiction #ConspirationRomansNouvellesEtc #CyberpunkScienceFiction #DetectiveAndMysteryFiction #Dystopian #dystopianFiction #fiction #GeneticEngineering #GeneticEngineeringFiction #HomicideFiction #MeurtreEnqueTesRomansNouvellesEtc #MurderInvestigation #MurderInvestigationFiction #MysteryDetectiveGeneral #MysteryThriller #MysteryFiction #NickHarkaway #review #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionCrimeMystery #ScienceFictionGeneral #ScienceFictionShortStories #SocialClasses #SocialClassesFiction #TPolyphilus #ThrillersGeneral #ThrillersFiction_ #TrahisonMoraleRomansNouvellesEtc

Titanium Noir - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Titanium Noir [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Nick Harkaway I easily fell into the fun of reading Nick Harkaway’s 2023 novel Titanium Noir–his first to be written for the post-lockdown world. While not “morally disimproving” (his phrase) like the Aiden Truhen books, it has the same rapid […]

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John Griogair BellAug 19, 2024

Veniss Underground

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/08/19/veniss-underground/

Veniss Underground - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Veniss Underground [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Jeff VanderMeer. (n.b. As I post this, there is a bundle on special offer that includes this and 10 other books, with 5 days to go, for you to consider.) Veniss Underground was VanderMeer’s first novel, written after some of […]

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