John Griogair BellOct 21

“Centuries had given them ample time to make peace with what they were, to embrace the limits and the gifts that came with it. But sometimes, to borrow from the poets, it fucking sucked.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/21/centuries-had-given-them-ample-time-to-make-peace-with-what-they-were-to-embrace-the-limits-and-the-gifts-that-came-with-it-but-sometimes-to-borrow-from-the-poets-it-fucking-sucked/

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John Griogair BellOct 13

Lies, Inc.

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/13/lies-inc/

#book #ColoniesSpatialesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #FictionFantasyContemporary #FictionLiterary #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #InterplanetaryVoyages #InterplanetaryVoyagesFiction #literaryFiction #philipKDick #review #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionCrimeMystery #ScienceFictionShortStories #SpaceColonies #SpaceColoniesFiction #SpaceShips #SpaceShipsFiction #TPolyphilus #VaisseauxSpatiauxRomansNouvellesEtc #VoyagesInterplaneTairesRomansNouvellesEtc

John Griogair BellSep 29, 2025

Beyond the Reach of Earth

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/29/beyond-the-reach-of-earth/

#AlienInvasionScienceFiction #book #colonizationScienceFiction #ExtraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #ExtraterrestrialBeingsFiction #fiction #HardScienceFiction #HumanAlienEncountersFiction #KenMacLeod #LightSpeedFiction #Lightspeed #LumieReVitesseRomansNouvellesEtc #Novels #RencontresAvecLesExtraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #review #romans #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionHardScienceFiction #ScienceFictionSpaceOpera #SpaceOperas #SpaceShipsFiction #TPolyphilus #VaisseauxSpatiauxRomansNouvellesEtc

John Griogair BellSep 15, 2025

Beyond the Hallowed Sky

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/15/beyond-the-hallowed-sky/

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John Griogair BellMar 25, 2024

Starship Titanic

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/03/25/starship-titanic/

Starship Titanic - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Abebooks, Publisher, Local Library] by Terry Jones, introduction by Douglas Adams. This novel is a pleasant little romp. The opening chapters set up the dilemma of the sabotaged starship on its original alien world of Blerontin, and I didn’t find it […]

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