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Let’s go caving with a-holes.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

February 14, 2022 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

On the mining colony world Cassandra V, 22-year-old Gyre Price lies on her qualifications in order to take a dangerous, high-paying job to explore a cave. She is desperate for the money so she can buy her way off-world to locate the mother who abandoned her years before. Her only companion is a voice in her head from her top-side handler, Em. Gyre is fitted into a high-tech suit and has surgery to re-route her bodily functions so that she never needs to remove her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: caitlin starling, cave exploring, Mental Health, the luminous dead

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: caitlin starling, cave exploring, Mental Health, the luminous dead ·
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A bunch of gay as hell space books

The Disasters by M.K. England

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

December 31, 2019 by Amanda 1 Comment

These are some of the sci-fi books I read in 2019. I’m not going to specify how for each one but they are all gay as hell in various ways, which is honestly just how I think space is going to be for us when we finally get there. Or at least, I sure hope. The Disasters by M.K. England takes one of my favorite tropes, a ragtag bunch of outcasts who circumstances force together must fight for their survival and learn to trust and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, a big ship at the edge of the universe, a memory called empire, alex white, ancestral night, arkady martine, Becky Chambers, caitlin starling, elizabeth bear, empress of forever, ferett steinmetz, gideon the ninth, Max Gladstone, mk england, sci-fi, space feels, tamsyn muir, the be taught if fortunate, the disasters, the luminous dead, the sol majestic

Amanda's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, a big ship at the edge of the universe, a memory called empire, alex white, ancestral night, arkady martine, Becky Chambers, caitlin starling, elizabeth bear, empress of forever, ferett steinmetz, gideon the ninth, Max Gladstone, mk england, sci-fi, space feels, tamsyn muir, the be taught if fortunate, the disasters, the luminous dead, the sol majestic ·
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