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Riley August

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Average rating: 3.75 · 3,737 ratings · 895 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Gifts of the Universe 3.75 avg rating — 3,737 ratings — published 2022 — 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
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Combine swoony queer romance, rich science fiction worldbuilding, nail-biting political intrigue, and a lovable main character who can’t seem to catch a break, and you get Love Galaxy, the finest romanti-sci-fi this side of the universe! If you’ve ev ...more
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“There was no deeper feeling of failure than to meet all the prerequisites of happiness and yet not achieve it.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

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“It’s strange what hindsight does. Takes all the layers of emotions and flattens them, either good or bad. It takes time to see the shadows as something beautiful. But of course in the present, hindsight is not possible. The presence is messy, scary, uncertain.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

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“Even at its core, even without common experience, there is something universal about loss. I can feel it, deep as heartache. Something stirs at loss. Something awakens to it, like a knowing, like an understanding, that this is how everything ends.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

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4th Quarter 2024 - Science Fiction #2

Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (400 pp)

3 votes, 42.9%

The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August (288 pp)

2 votes, 28.6%

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (386 pp)

1 vote, 14.3%

Nightborn: Coldfire Rising by C.S. Friedman (330 pp)

1 vote, 14.3%

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (352 pp)

0 votes, 0.0%

The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers by Mike Ashley (240 pp)

0 votes, 0.0%

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