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The wind blows. The sun shines. Humans die. I’ve seen each of these happen again and again so often they have become like a blur to me over the millennia. still, the breeze is always a nice surprise, the sunshine always pleasant. And I don't really think I am going to die tonight. Not at the hands of the worst serial killer in history. And yet. Just in case. I am Completes to write this down. So that if I fail he won't win. One way or another this ends tonight....


I am the god of truth and I have and will never lie to those that seek my wisdom. Today was no exception when I was asked.


How do you Kill a God...

The sun has gone dim, the stars blink out. And in the inky blackness,
a low howl is growing. all those that hear it rise there hands to the sky, smile
and cheer.

I saw two such unfortunate creatures just a few days ago,

the smiles twisted painfully, there cheers maddened. I would have pitted them

but there is only so much you can pitty something that will kill you if it were faster.

I run most places now...


it was raining the day the sun disappeared, which was a shame for I would have liked to see it go...

on a planet remarkably similar to our own, in size and distance to its small yellow sun.
a small metal traveller deploys twin silken chutes and on what its creators would
consider a beautiful summer day lands with barely a thud.

it quietly celebrates a job well-done, the first-ever trans-solar landing. 

then with a level of surprise a robot should not have, it looks into the unreadable, but intelligent
face of a creature that has just had the terrifying realisation that they may not be

the only intelligent species in the universe...


The sky is screaming, screaming for you.
It should be horrifying, bone-chilling. But the nothingness is inviting.
Will you dance in the starless sky.
Come join us. You hear,
not with your ears.

Come join us...


Once upon a time, a man fell to earth but never hit the ground...


I was 27 when I stopped ageing for good, I guess I'll always be 27...

Kathy lived in a 5 bedroom house, with two brothers, three couples, one old man, one young man, a girl of indeterminate age, two cats, one long haired one short, two dogs a elegant labradoodle and a bitsa, and she wanted to kill them all....

well maybe not the cats...

oh and definitely not the dogs.

Many books have been written about space. From the horrifying to the fascinating,
romantic to action-packed. And now I have the joyous task of exploring just a few.
this annotated bibliography will focus on adult novels with space as the central theme.

 all books have been sourced from Novelist Database and goodread.

let us begin...

The foundation

Chapter One
HARI SELDON-. . . born in the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era; died 12,069. The dates are more commonly given in terms of the current Foundational Era as -79 to the year 1 F.E. Born to middle-class parents on Helicon, Arcturus sector (where his father, in a legend of doubtful authenticity, was a tobacco grower in the hydroponic plants of the planet), he early showed amazing ability in mathematics. Anecdotes concerning his ability are innumerable, and some are contradictory. At the age of two, he is said to have . . . 

. . . Undoubtedly his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory. Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical science. . . . 

. . . The best existing authority we have for the details of his life is the biography written by Gaal Dornick who, as a young man, met Seldon two years before the great mathematician's death. The story of the meeting . . .


ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA* 

Author- Isaac Asimov
Publisher- New York: Bantam Books 2004.

From one of the titans of science fiction comes the millennia-spanning foundation. the first of the expansive trilogy that has some of the most ambitious world-building since Tolkien and most thought-provoking work since Tolstoy.

After a band of psychologists (the science of predicting the future) come to the realisation that the galactic empire is in decline and will fall apart in the near future leading to thousands of years of war and regression, they set out with psychohistorian Hari Seldon as their leader to create a colony and preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind.

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old mans war

“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.” 

Author- John Scalzi

Publisher- New York: Tor Books 2005

Annotations- old man's war was Scalzi's first novel earning him a Hugo nomination for best novel  in 2006 and introduced his sardonic wit and humour to the world, old man's war follows John Perry who upon his 75th birthday says goodbye to his deceased wife, joins the colonial defence force and leaves the planet. what follows is a fast-paced, action backed surprisingly funny adventure that sees John and his band of friends through there first tour of duty as earth's premier fighting force and all the physical and mental torment that involves.

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Hitchhiker's guide to the universe

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

Author- Douglas Adams
publisher- New York: Harmony Books 1980, c1979.

Annotations- A book that starts where most are afraid to end, we begin with the destruction of the earth and things pick up speed from there, the Author Douglas Adams oft considered one of the 21st century's great satirists takes us through an absurd, fast passed, slide splittingly funny look at a universe where humanity is not even a blip on the radar, earth only warrants a two word description in the culmination of all knowledge and humans aren't even rate in the top two spots for smartest creatures on earth.

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Red rising

The first thing you should know about me is I am my father’s son. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. I did not cry. Not when the Society televised the arrest. Not when the Golds tried him. Not when the Grays hanged him. Mother hit me for that. My brother Kieran was supposed to be the stoic one. He was the elder, I the younger. I was supposed to cry. Instead, Kieran bawled like a girl when Little Eo tucked a haemanthus into Father’s left workboot and ran back to her own father’s side. My sister Leanna murmured a lament beside me. I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes.

On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Author- Pierce Brown
Publisher- New York: Ballantine Books 2014.

annotations- the debut novel from Pierce Brown that started the red rising trilogy, winner of Goodreads Choice Awards: 2014, a fast-paced, thrilling, journey into an expansive dystopian Sci-Fi fantasy world that flows from earths moon to the far edge of the solar system. our story follows Darrow after the execution of his wife throws himself into a revolutionary cell which aims to infiltrate the ruling Gold a genetically enhanced bloodthirsty
warrior class that rules over the solar system with an Iron fist.

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