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This World Is Not Yours

Toxic Relationships Destroying Alien Worlds Author: Kemi Ashing-Giwa Vinh and Amara are happily married – sort of. There is that lingering doubt about the sustainability of their marriage. Vinh has left Amara before – left her brutally. But . . . somehow, they are back together and married now, even though their fraught honeymoon is filled with moments of toxicity, unsaid accusations, and past pain. Their marriage is dissolved almost instantly – but not for the reason you suspect. A political rival has destroyed the newly colonized planet’s genetic engineering capabilities, which is how this society ensures its survival. In other [...]

2025-10-05T19:59:10-07:00October 5th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Salvation Day

“The world not as it is, but as it is meant to be.” Author: Kali Wallace The House of Wisdom is half legend, half nightmare. A once mighty exploration vessel, it orbits now in space, abandoned, all its inhabitants dead, the victims of a virus that spread and killed indiscriminately. There was only one survivor – a lone child named Jaswinder Bhattacharya – who was shot into space in an experimental vessel. And he has said nothing all these years. Flashforward ten years. Jas is an adult man now, traveling on a spaceship with his childhood best friend (and would-be lover) [...]

2025-08-17T14:59:44-07:00August 17th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

War of the Worlds

“This isn't a war. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.” Author: H.G. Wells H.G. Wells created the entire genre of alien invasion survival narratives. The way we imagine it now – through TV, movies, books, comics, you name it – all points back to The War of the Worlds. Now, I’m a fan of disaster fiction, and I’ve been salivating to get some time with this classic for years. Finally, I had the book and the time, but I quickly discovered that my anticipation outweighed the actual power of the narrative, if not [...]

2025-07-19T14:48:28-07:00July 19th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |
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