Humans pack-bond, and they spill their pack-bonding instincts everywhere. Or to ensure the survival of others they feel responsible for. You would be amazed what humans will do to survive. Humans will literally cut off bits of themselves if trapped by a disaster. Humans will walk for days on broken bones in order to make it to safety. Humans heal so quickly, they pierce holes in themselves or inject ink under their epidermis for fun. Search Search Authors, Titles, and Other Tags agatha christie apocalypse Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Baltimore Banned Books Week Ben Aaronovitch Bill Pronzini BookBub C.S.Humans are tough. Unnamed ficlet(s) about terraforming (but keeping the fun bits of the location) Unnamed ficlet(s) about the human desire to bond So instead of the professionally written, edited, and formatted stories in this book, I recommend reading some of the amateur-written, spontaneously collaborative, mini stories that you can find posted online, of which I have included a handful of links below: These stories are definitely doing interesting things and well-worth the read, but are missing a lot of the millennial-era absurdist humor that I’d expected given the premise. There’s just a spirit of joyful insanity in the online discussion that didn’t come through in the stories in this book which tend more towards the nostalgic melancholy. It’s also just one part of a whole tumblr conversation / meme that is also hilarious and joyful, asking the questions: what if humans are the weird ones? Like just not the galactic norm at all in really weird ways? what if we’re space orcs? What if we’re the hold-my-beer species? What if our weirdness is that we form bonds with everything (family, friends, aliens, space ships, weapons, etc.)?

I can certainly enjoy classic science fiction, but the premise of the book is that it was inspired by a tumblr post that I’d actually run across before this book was ever published.Īnd that tumblr post is hilarious. It’s not that they’re bad, it’s just that these stories read like classic silver age scifi stories. Sadly, I think I went in to it with my expectations a bit too high. I was very excited to discover this book existed and bought it for my kindle as soon as I realized it was a thing. Becker, Gwendolynn Thomas, Mariah Southworth, Alex Pearl, & Amelia Kibbie

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