
The Silvery Path (The Underworlds #4)
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Will it end in peace or a silvery dose of fate? Henna’s manipulation knows no bounds, Denida is...
Fantasy Science Fiction
Environmental Posthumanism in Literature and Science: Stages of Transmutation
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Literature is often regarded as a window on the human soul. However, in an era of turbulent...

The Book of Things
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Have you ever stood corrected? Was it difficult? Was it uncomfortable? The Book of Things was...
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Get Started in Writing Erotic Fiction: Teach Yourself
Judith Watts and Mirren Baxter
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LEARN HOW TO WRITE EROTIC FICTION THAT'S HOT UNDER THE COLLAR. Smart, sassy and full of everything...

The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
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The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's...
The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron
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If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical...

Phil Leader (619 KP) rated Primordial (A Liberator Universe Novelette) in Books
Nov 25, 2019
A vessel headed out to a distant star system comes across an ancient artifact in uncharted deep space together with an old damaged and apparently lifeless spaceship of unknown design. Despite misgivings the lure of salvage is too much for the crew to ignore. But they soon discover that although the ship may be derelict there is an entity there that has been waiting patiently for a long long time for visitors. For fresh meat.
Told from the point of view of XO Koby Solomon this is a terrific slice of science fiction horror, very much in the mould of something like Alien. Bailey plays the disorientation and claustrophobia of the derelict alien vessel for everything it is worth as well as the panic and paranoia of the salvage crew. Like the best horror stories it's never clear to the reader exactly what is going to happen next or where they - or the crew - ought to be looking: into the darkness ahead or over their shoulders?
There's really nothing to fault here. The change in pace from Liberator shows the breadth of imagination and story telling from Bailey (and his Liberator co-author Darren Bullock) will ensure that readers will want to keep reading.
Stories of Your Life: And Others
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful...
