Nostalgia For Twilight

by Jesse Laeuchli

When human civilization across the galaxy begins to fade, a small planet sends out an expedition on board the ship Twilight in the hopes of discovering why. As their journey proceeds, the situation proves to be darker than they initially feared. Will the crew of the Twilight ever be able to return home?

34 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2019

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author's second novella is altogether more polished than "Visions: A Story of Deep time", which I also enjoyed. The writing is better, the story more linear, but no less imaginative. Again, the writing contains numerous computer science references, to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, to the halting problem, to non-polynomial algorithms etc. The amazing coincidence of the book is that it is about a space-born "pandemic" that seems to be a pathogen that has the ability to distort people's thinking and, in a digital virtualisation of stasis through space, a virtualisation created by the individual space-traveller's own design, poses a significant threat to lives and the crew's mission. Think Donald Trump's erratic thinking delivered with the contagiousness of COVID-19 but over the Internet.

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you read one novella this winter ;-)