"Underneath the sleepless eyes and scar tissue, Nash decided, he was one of those people: the sunshine people. The ones so warm, everybody turned their faces to them and basked in it. Not so hot they burned, not so cold they chilled. The just right people." - The Hermetic Library Blog
Underneath the sleepless eyes and scar tissue, Nash decided, he was one of those people: the sunshine people. The ones so warm, everybody turned their faces to them and basked in it. Not so hot they burned, not so cold they chilled. The just right people. L M Sagas, Cascade Failure: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, […]
"That was the answer they’d been searching for—the heart of humanity they’d never been able to replicate. It wasn’t just the power to choose; it was finding something worth choosing. Something worth reaching beyond their nature, beyond their instincts, beyond themself. Something worth everything." - The Hermetic Library Blog
That was the answer they’d been searching for—the heart of humanity they’d never been able to replicate. It wasn’t just the power to choose; it was finding something worth choosing. Something worth reaching beyond their nature, beyond their instincts, beyond themself. Something worth everything. L M Sagas, Cascade Failure: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, […]
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Robert A Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein’s Hugo-winning novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is politically-oriented “hard” sf from the 1960s. Even if we are still fifty years short of the date of the story, being […]
System Collapse - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews System Collapse [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (unabridged) (abridged, dramatized), Publisher, Local Library] by Martha Wells, book 7 of the Murderbot series. This book has an exciting story, and it reveals more of the implicit worldbuilding that has been going on in previous Murderbot Diaries. But it has practically no narrative […]
"What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit." - The Hermetic Library Blog
What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit. Emma Mieko Candon, The Archive Undying [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “The Forest comes to us in dreams, in whispers. The Forest is in us.” “The membranes that separate us from insanity, from the fall, the […]
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