Tak! quoted Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The world roared.
— Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Tak! quoted The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
Perhaps he’ll die this time.
Tak! quoted Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis , returns with Dual Memory, a standalone …
I want to feel everything, the light, the noise, the dark, even the cold and fear.
— Dual Memory by Sue Burke
Tak! quoted Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA …
We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other.
— Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
Tak! quoted Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky
Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that …
The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.
— Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Tak! quoted Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
Atlas Alone is a 2019 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman. It was …
The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.
— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
Tak! quoted The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui
Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone …
By all accounts, I should be scared.
Tak! quoted Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space …
The protesters outside are getting louder.
Tak! quoted Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
He didn't like beating people.
Tak! quoted Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale …
I am not on this beach.
— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
Tak! quoted After Atlas by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #2)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a …
It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.
— After Atlas by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #2)
Tak! quoted Planetfall by Emma Newman
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed in …
Every time I come down here I think about my mother.
— Planetfall by Emma Newman
Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …
I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.
— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
Tak! quoted Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
They call me Mr. Scales because I’m a snake.
— Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Tak! quoted The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used …
When the multiverse was confirmed, the spiritual and scientific communities both counted it as evidence of their validity.