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	The Outside (The Outside, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 3,275 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Machine of Death, #2) by Ryan North (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Bennardo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Malki (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,113 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fallen (The Outside, #2) 3.84 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ignore All Previous Instructions 3.68 avg rating — 467 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite (The Outside #3) 4.21 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula R. Stiles (Editor), Nick Mamatas 3.29 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scrape of Tooth and Bone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsters In My Mind 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrections 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Million-Year Elegies 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stories From the Spring

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If I’m trying to post these review/recommendation posts at the solstices and equinoxes, then I’m a few days late – I’ve gotten pleasantly sloppy with my scheduling now that classes are no longer in session – but I did not forget! The period of April, May, June was busy with both difficult and excellent things, and many stories (in many forms) left an

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“SIR, Enga said presently, I SHOT HER. BUT YASIRA SHOUTED AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. “Yes, Enga. That’s called the chain of command.” I BROKE PART OF MY ARM SAVING THE HUONGS, AND THEY HAVE BEEN THROWING THEMSELVES AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. IS THAT THE CHAIN OF COMMAND? WHY CAN’T I HAVE A HUONG?”
― Ada Hoffmann

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“Well, it did what Outside usually did in stories. Showed up. Violated all the known laws of physics. Killed some people and drove the rest mad.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

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“Universal acceptance can exist, I think, only as a failure of the imagination.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

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3rd Quarter 2026 - Science Fiction #3

The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu, 227p

2 votes, 33.3%

Jitterbug by Gareth L. Powell, 336p

2 votes, 33.3%

The Infinite State by Richard Swan, 416p

1 vote, 16.7%

Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, 248p

1 vote, 16.7%

The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus, 464p

0 votes, 0.0%

Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne, 368p

0 votes, 0.0%

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite, 103p

0 votes, 0.0%

Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann, 320p

0 votes, 0.0%

Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim, 368p

0 votes, 0.0%

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