Star Trek: DS9 — Force and Motion
{4.5/5} “‘I know what I will probably say any other time anyone ever asks me this question for the rest of my life, but I also know that, in some small way, I’ll be lying a little bit if I don’t admit that the best day I ever had’ — O’Brien raised his glass — […]
Lock In
{4.5/5} “I felt that sensation unique to Hadens, the vertigo that comes from perceptually being in two places at once. It’s much more noticeable when your body and your threep are in the same room at the same time. The technical term for it is ‘polyproprioception.’ Humans, who generally only have one body to deal […]
Mission of Gravity
{4.5/5} “Intellectually he knew that the thing would not fall — he kept telling himself that it could not; but having grown to maturity in an environment where a fall of six inches was usually fatally destructive even to the incredibly tough Mesklinite organism, his emotions were not easy to control… After all, it was […]
Ultima
{4.5/5} “I feel… as if I were a child, plummeting a hub-mountain glacier, out of control… We have both already walked away from our worlds, the very reality we knew, the history, the culture. Now here we are speaking of walking off into the dark. To our deaths — or unknowable glory.” Ultima by Stephen […]
Proxima
{4.5/5} “And on the longest of timescales, what is there not to fear? We are motes, our very worlds are motes, floating in a universe that was born in unimaginable violence. Our little corner of the universe is tranquil now, relatively. But it was not always this way, and why should it remain so?” Proxima […]
The Lake House
{5/5} “All families were a composite of stories, and yet her own, it seemed, comprised more layers of tellings and retellings than most. There were so many of them, for one thing, and they all liked to talk and write and wonder. Living as they had at Loeanneth, a house rich with its own history, […]
Time Travelers Never Die
{4.5/5} “Socrates was, at first glance, a man of mundane appearance. He was of average height, for the time, and clean-shaven. He wore a dull-red robe and, considering the circumstances, he maintained a remarkably equanimity. And his eyes were extraordinary, conveying the impression that they were lit from within. When they fell on Dave, as […]
The Last Light of the Sun
{5/5} “It would nourish my own desires to do so, to sit here and share learning as old age comes. Do not think I am not tempted. But I have tasks in the west. We Cyngael live where the farthest light of Jad falls. The last light of the sun. It needs attending to, my […]
Camouflage
{4.5/5} “The changeling changed. It would never be human, but it was human enough for something like empathy with its professors. They were trying to understand, and teach about, the human condition — but were themselves trapped in human bodies; stuck in human culture like ancient insects in amber.” Camouflage by Joe Haldeman, published in […]
Lavinia
{4.5/5} “I was fated, it seems, to live among people who suffered beyond measure from grief, who were driven mad by it. Though I suffered grief, I was doomed to sanity.” Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 2008 Lavinia spends much of her time outside, playing with her friends. But she’s the daughter […]