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Spore

Spore Author: David Kristoph John Harmon is desperate. He is working double shifts. He is trying to do everything and anything to get enough money for his daughter’s chemotherapy, and he is completely unable to sleep. Medically unable. And it’s all wearing on him. When he finally convinces his shady brother-in-law to let him in on a secret sleep study, he thinks all of his problems are solved. They are paying him more than enough to take care of his daughter just by being in the study, and the strange, glowing blue liquid they are injecting him with is finally allowing him [...]

2022-02-20T10:30:00-07:00February 20th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Parasite

It Wears Our Faces Author: Darcy Coates Jen, Carly, and Alessicka are three very different women alone on an isolated moon outpost, going through the daily routine of killing invading plant and animal life and waiting for the go-nowhere assignment to end. It’s not a good opportunity, and they each have a hidden past that has led to this assignment. They spend their days prowling the shifting, dusty moon with sting sticks, counting down the time, wondering what each other did to get here until something new, something different, arrives on the planet. And they decide to ignore protocol and deal [...]

2021-10-11T17:41:13-07:00October 11th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

Interference

War of the Species Author: Sue Burke Life on Pax continues; the colonists and Steveland, the sentient bamboo-like plant that originally colonized this world, are working through the fallout of their initial interactions with the Glassmakers and adapting to a new, diverse, but technologically impaired society. But life on earth 55 light years away – that’s entirely different. Earth may be a legend passed down through the Pax generations, but the scientists on a now very dystopian (and blood thirsty planet) have never forgotten the team sent to find something better in the stars. And now, they’re looking for them and [...]

2021-09-25T18:22:13-07:00September 25th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , |
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