"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, […]

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"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, […]

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Beyond the Light Horizon - The Hermetic Library Blog

Beyond the Light Horizon [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Ken MacLeod, book three of the Lightspeed Trilogy I have read two earlier series by Ken MacLeod: both the Fall Revolution and Engines of Light. Compared to these, the Lightspeed Trilogy that concludes with Beyond the Light Horizon is far less made up of […]

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Priests of Mars - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Priests of Mars [Amazon, Local Library] by Graham McNeill, part of the Forges of Mars series, also in a collected edition Forges of Mars [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]. I’ve previously read a couple of Arkham Horror novels by game-developer-cum-novelist Graham McNeill, and I wasn’t profoundly impressed by them. But I’m […]

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