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These Lifeless Things
Eva is a survivor. She's not sure what she survived, exactly, only that They invaded without warning, killed nearly all of humanity, and relentlessly attack everyone who's left. All she can do to stay sane, in the blockaded city that's no longer home, is keep a journal about her struggle.
Fifty years later, Eva's words are found by Emerson, a young anthropologist sent to the ruins to study what happened. The discovery could shed light on the Invasion, turning the unyielding mystery of the short war into a story of hope and defiance.
Fifty years later, Eva's words are found by Emerson, a young anthropologist sent to the ruins to study what happened. The discovery could shed light on the Invasion, turning the unyielding mystery of the short war into a story of hope and defiance.
113 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 5, 2021
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Premee Mohamed
83 books741 followersPremee Mohamed is a Nebula award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on Twitter at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.
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June 19, 2025
There is something about Premee’s writing that just *works* for me.
In These Lifeless Things, these cosmic, reality warping, shapeshifting entities have invaded earth and almost entirely wiped out all of humanity. We read from two POV's, one from a women living through through near extinction event, and another from a researcher about 100 years in the future as she attempts to figure out exactly what happened all those years ago.
It's only 100 pages or so, but the sheer amount of world building Premee was able to achieve was honestly mind boggling. There would be times when a single sentence would have me putting my kindle down so I could just stare at the wall and think about what I just read. It's upsetting, bleak, vivid, and crazy imaginative and I just cannot recommend it enough.
In These Lifeless Things, these cosmic, reality warping, shapeshifting entities have invaded earth and almost entirely wiped out all of humanity. We read from two POV's, one from a women living through through near extinction event, and another from a researcher about 100 years in the future as she attempts to figure out exactly what happened all those years ago.
It's only 100 pages or so, but the sheer amount of world building Premee was able to achieve was honestly mind boggling. There would be times when a single sentence would have me putting my kindle down so I could just stare at the wall and think about what I just read. It's upsetting, bleak, vivid, and crazy imaginative and I just cannot recommend it enough.
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March 5, 2021Extraordinary novella about life after the apocalyptic invasion of Lovecraftian *things*. Told by the journal of a woman living in a Russian town in the aftermath, struggling to survive and to grapple mentally with the situation, and also the scientist many years later studying events, when what's happened is mostly over.
It's a weird, disturbing story where much is left unclear or unresolved and things happen in the gaps between sentences, and we come up against the impossibility of knowing, the evanescence of existence, and the way humans just don't want to confront stuff. Terrific, terrifying.
It's a weird, disturbing story where much is left unclear or unresolved and things happen in the gaps between sentences, and we come up against the impossibility of knowing, the evanescence of existence, and the way humans just don't want to confront stuff. Terrific, terrifying.
March 27, 2021
Here are the bad guys. Are you paying attention?
Hunger. Thirst. Illness. Injury.
Rain. Snow. Dust.
Sickness. Loneliness. Despair. Mistrust.
Agents. Looters. Rats.
The statues of the conquerors.
The trees which seek to seize and skin you.
The small monsters which seek to harry and eat you.
The Them, who have come from far away, and a different time, to drag you into the darkness. But Them you already know.
A very intriguing novella from Premee Mohamed - one which builds on a Lovecraftish foundation through alternating accounts of an anthropologist and a woman surviving the invasion of Them, some hundred years apart.
There's such interesting hints of the world 100 years from invasion, and I'm hoping at some time the author revisits it - which is not to say I wasn't satisfied by the story, I'm just greedy. Most of the focus is on our historical diarist, whose entries hint at some truly monstrous moments, but also give us glimpses of what people can be capable of when only their best will keep them alive.
It's so short that to get into it properly would spoil it, but suffice to say - I very much enjoyed it.
Hunger. Thirst. Illness. Injury.
Rain. Snow. Dust.
Sickness. Loneliness. Despair. Mistrust.
Agents. Looters. Rats.
The statues of the conquerors.
The trees which seek to seize and skin you.
The small monsters which seek to harry and eat you.
The Them, who have come from far away, and a different time, to drag you into the darkness. But Them you already know.
A very intriguing novella from Premee Mohamed - one which builds on a Lovecraftish foundation through alternating accounts of an anthropologist and a woman surviving the invasion of Them, some hundred years apart.
There's such interesting hints of the world 100 years from invasion, and I'm hoping at some time the author revisits it - which is not to say I wasn't satisfied by the story, I'm just greedy. Most of the focus is on our historical diarist, whose entries hint at some truly monstrous moments, but also give us glimpses of what people can be capable of when only their best will keep them alive.
It's so short that to get into it properly would spoil it, but suffice to say - I very much enjoyed it.
April 11, 2022
These are the few notes I made while reading These Lifeless Things:
— the Setback lasted 3 yrs, only 6 verifiable documents survive from that period. But now there’s the notebook (journal? diary?)
— it was some kind of invasion, worldwide—a weird invasion though, not alien spaceships [is this like the Cthulhu mythos?]
— switches back and forth between excerpts from the journal and thescientist (anthropologist) who found and is now reading it
— anti-science tone running thru the book
— almost ¾ thru and this is v. repetitive, getting a bit boring—first ¼ is quite subtle and intriguing, but the next two ¼s author doesn’t add much, just more of the same
— it’s the content I don’t think much of, writing style itself very good
— ¾ way thru suddenly Kyiv mentioned—first and only place-name in book
— underwhelmed
I like “subtle”, like “strange” very much too—and also like unreliable narrators, at least one of which we may have here, but in the end still found this pretty uninteresting anyway.
— the Setback lasted 3 yrs, only 6 verifiable documents survive from that period. But now there’s the notebook (journal? diary?)
— it was some kind of invasion, worldwide—a weird invasion though, not alien spaceships [is this like the Cthulhu mythos?]
— switches back and forth between excerpts from the journal and the
— anti-science tone running thru the book
— almost ¾ thru and this is v. repetitive, getting a bit boring—first ¼ is quite subtle and intriguing, but the next two ¼s author doesn’t add much, just more of the same
— it’s the content I don’t think much of, writing style itself very good
— ¾ way thru suddenly Kyiv mentioned—first and only place-name in book
— underwhelmed
I like “subtle”, like “strange” very much too—and also like unreliable narrators, at least one of which we may have here, but in the end still found this pretty uninteresting anyway.
March 6, 2022
This is my favorite SFF novella from 2021! Just such amazing writing, and such good themes. I loved the dual timeline, the way it explored invasion and appeasement (especially relevant given that it's set in Ukraine), and the strength of the characters in surviving and resisting. Beautiful writing, creepy atmosphere, and an excellent discussion of history. It's for sure a slow, contemplative read, but that made it absolutely perfect for me. I loved this so much and hope lots of other people will read it too!
Content Warnings:
genocide, murder, starvation, cannibalism, injury, invasion
Content Warnings:
genocide, murder, starvation, cannibalism, injury, invasion
February 20, 2025
My first Premee Mohamed and it certainly won’t be my last. I loved this bleak little tale of survivors at the end of the world, and the historians studying them.
February 24, 2021
A dark, thoughtful, almost Lovecraftian literary science fiction novella about life at the end of the world. Told from two points of view, a historian researching ruins after an apocalyptic event, and Eva, a woman who lived those times and committed her time in that period to a journal.
This is a thoughtful, stately, and yet at the same time emotional and deeply creepy story about life in a world destroyed by invaders you can barely comprehend. It's a mix of the harsh realities of survival in that period, the rich inner life of a woman that refuses to stop thinking and feeling even in as it hurts her, and the confusion of struggling against an enemy that doesn't even obey Newtonian physics.
Despite its short length, this is a dense, rich story, and Mohamed manages to cram in an impressive amount of lyricism and human insight into a survival story about the apocalypse.
This is a thoughtful, stately, and yet at the same time emotional and deeply creepy story about life in a world destroyed by invaders you can barely comprehend. It's a mix of the harsh realities of survival in that period, the rich inner life of a woman that refuses to stop thinking and feeling even in as it hurts her, and the confusion of struggling against an enemy that doesn't even obey Newtonian physics.
Despite its short length, this is a dense, rich story, and Mohamed manages to cram in an impressive amount of lyricism and human insight into a survival story about the apocalypse.
April 7, 2021
Lovecraftian colonizer monsters. I was biting my nails through 90% of it, and need to re-read it at some point (I miss things when I'm anxious, and there's a lot of subtle nuances).
I've been reading a lot about colonialism lately, and here are some of the passages that really made me think of that frame:
(This one reminds me of the part in Ecofeminism that talks about the difference between an intentionally rootless global elite and refugees forcibly dispossessed from their roots.)
I've been reading a lot about colonialism lately, and here are some of the passages that really made me think of that frame:
No one's got any proof that these... these new things, these statues that began springing up, ever did anything except remind the conquered peoples that they had indeed been conquered, just as had been happening throughout history
(This one reminds me of the part in Ecofeminism that talks about the difference between an intentionally rootless global elite and refugees forcibly dispossessed from their roots.)
They are not from here, in any sense, any, that a human mind would understand as 'here.' Nowhere is 'here' for Them. Or everywhere is here.
This idea Eva had, that They were gods or something, I can't get behind that, but I can't shake it either. They had the trappings of gods, maybe They had fooled other worlds. But no hint of real divinity, except for power.
Appeasement, of course -- the policy with which I've lived most of my short and academically-focused life -- never worked... The truth was it never did, but that didn't stop places from trying it.
The enemy is not each other and the enemy is not love. It's not wanting to be loved, either.... That's the ally. The only one we've got. It will not help us win the day. Nothing will. But it will fight at our side. It will not save us. It will only save our humanity.
February 16, 2021
The first title released as part of Solaris Satellites – Rebellion Publishing’s new direct-to-reader range of novellas – Premee Mohamed’s These Lifeless Things is a strange, unsettling, ambiguous tale of the costs of survival and the difficulty of piecing history back together. One of a handful of survivors from when They invaded, Eva ekes out a rough living in the city, avoiding the terrifying sentinels and all the other new dangers, and keeping a journal of her days. Decades later, young Emerson finds Eva’s journal on a research trip to the city, recognising it as a rare opportunity to gain an insight into what actually happened in the years following the invasion.
It’s hard to know quite what to make of a story like this, with all the questions that it leaves unanswered and the sense it gives of a wider, more expansive world just waiting to be explored further. Readers who like stories to be neatly wrapped up by their conclusions may well find it frustrating, but there’s no question that it’s compelling from start to finish, beautifully written and quietly powerful. As a vision of the cold, chilling unknown it’s extremely effective and often deeply emotional, examining questions of survival and the awful prioritisation that requires, love, loss, the preservation of history and even the competitive realities of competitive science, all under the lurking shadow of the faceless, nameless, abstract yet deeply disturbing Them. It’s certainly a story that will last long in the memory, unsettling but thought-provoking.
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It’s hard to know quite what to make of a story like this, with all the questions that it leaves unanswered and the sense it gives of a wider, more expansive world just waiting to be explored further. Readers who like stories to be neatly wrapped up by their conclusions may well find it frustrating, but there’s no question that it’s compelling from start to finish, beautifully written and quietly powerful. As a vision of the cold, chilling unknown it’s extremely effective and often deeply emotional, examining questions of survival and the awful prioritisation that requires, love, loss, the preservation of history and even the competitive realities of competitive science, all under the lurking shadow of the faceless, nameless, abstract yet deeply disturbing Them. It’s certainly a story that will last long in the memory, unsettling but thought-provoking.
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February 27, 2023
This story is set over two timelines. Through diary entries discovered by an anthropologist 50 years later, we learn about Eva and her companions, trying to survive an alien invasion. Overall I think the concept is great, but the lack of depth to the storyline of the science team was disappointing while Eva's diary entries were a little too detailed to be realistically imagined as diary entries of someone spending the majority of their time trying to survive.
Additionally, the lack of conclusion felt right for Eva's story (no one to write an entry wrapping up her presumed death) but the lack of conclusion to the second timeline felt lacking and disappointing.
Additionally, the lack of conclusion felt right for Eva's story (no one to write an entry wrapping up her presumed death) but the lack of conclusion to the second timeline felt lacking and disappointing.
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February 20, 2021
An absolute triumph of a story exploring how people survive cataclysmic events which after 2020 makes this thoughtful tale of humanity and not simply an alien invasion. Magnificent
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May 8, 2025Well written, but I didn’t like it. I seem to be in the minority about that so you should probably read it.
March 9, 2021
This is a fantastic read, with some really nice ideas, and some very subtle twists. Definitely give this one a read if you like your stories to have some thought behind them. Full review to follow shortly.
May 30, 2021
Haunting. That's the best word I can think of to describe this.
I loved it.
I loved it.
April 2, 2021
A dystopian tale with simmerings of eldritch horror in the background. There are times when a lot can be said by not explicitly stating them, as nameless horrors are much imagined than the ones seen in the flesh.
My rating - 4.5/5
My rating - 4.5/5
March 11, 2021
I loved this one. It's a beautifully understated pair of stories about people dealing with the presence and the aftermath of incomprehensible cosmic horrors. I mean, very tangible cosmic horrors, certainly present, but incomprehensible. The descriptions of the Setback time are beautiful, and the tired focus of Emerson's 'current' narrative is extremely relateable.
The ending of both stories... I feel like there's technically room for hope, but what I really took away is an overwhelming sense of more work coming, and uncertain outcomes. The griefs that happen in that context are bright, but they are so small.
I was initially taken aback by Emerson's framing of things--I kept thinking of it as too safe and recovered--but as the work progressed, I started to see her context differently. Not as one of recovery, but as a held breath; a long moment with no expectation that things were actually better. Like living in the fourth-last paragraph of Bob Leman's "The Window" with no fixed timeline.
The ending of both stories... I feel like there's technically room for hope, but what I really took away is an overwhelming sense of more work coming, and uncertain outcomes. The griefs that happen in that context are bright, but they are so small.
I was initially taken aback by Emerson's framing of things--I kept thinking of it as too safe and recovered--but as the work progressed, I started to see her context differently. Not as one of recovery, but as a held breath; a long moment with no expectation that things were actually better. Like living in the fourth-last paragraph of Bob Leman's "The Window" with no fixed timeline.
March 30, 2021
The novella has two timelines - the journal of a woman named Eve, in the aftermath of a Lovecraftian apocalyptic event that lingers in strange unreality, and Emerson, the anthropologist studying the events some fifty years later as the world is beginning to recover. A strange, disturbing story, where memories and events are unreliable, and little information is even known about the invasion that broke the world. Fantastic cosmic horror, with deep layered psychological dread that builds as the story reaches a crescendo in both timelines.
February 7, 2021
Loved this book so much. It had so many elements I like in a book: a close, introspective voice that offers some beautiful philosophical insights, strained and uneven relationships, the constant threat of annihilation from incomprehensible forces despite which people struggle to continue meaningful human lives. The found journal structure creates a lot of tension. It's a short book, but I inhaled it as fast as I could. This little cosmic horror novella should not be missed.
March 17, 2024
Another book in the "I could have enjoyed this a lot more if ..." column. In this case, if it had been a short story, the mystique and atmosphere could have sufficed; if it had been fleshed out into a novel, maybe some of the more banal but essential details could have been fleshed out in a way that made more sense.
We have two narratives here: one comprises well-written, colorful, and necessarily brief journal entries in the midst of a necessarily inscrutable, fascinatingly cruel invasion. The other is a boring shell of a story of the discoverer of the journal. The discoverer, an anthropology student, has a few hints of something horrifyingly creepy ... or possibly just weird interpersonal professional dynamics. Neither is explored in a satisfying way.
The anthropologist on the verge of explaining what happened just 50 years ago is a weird idea (I got this number from a single throwaway sentence that was ambiguous, so if anyone has a different interpretation of the timeline, I am all ears) — everyone she knows over the age of 50, her grandparents and probably her parents (and everyone's), must have survived this tragedy, but we never get a satisfying explanation of why there are zero (now, one) contemporaneous accounts, or even a single post-event account, of what happened or why or how it ended or ... anything. I get that this is supposed to be eerie, but it comes across as just dumb. How did technology go absolutely bonkers after the population was down to .5% of the pre-event level worldwide?
And the story never makes sense of what "siege cities" are or why they are special when everyone was massacred or something, or a dozen other unanswered questions about the why and how of the plot.
Leaving the anthropologist out would really up the gravitas of the diary, explain why we can't explain those things yet, etc.
I feel like I was supposed to think the baddies are just around the corner in both narratives, yet they were so ambiguous and ephemeral, I never had a sense of true danger.
We know the stakes are high and the enemy is unknowable, but why this perspective?
We have two narratives here: one comprises well-written, colorful, and necessarily brief journal entries in the midst of a necessarily inscrutable, fascinatingly cruel invasion. The other is a boring shell of a story of the discoverer of the journal. The discoverer, an anthropology student, has a few hints of something horrifyingly creepy ... or possibly just weird interpersonal professional dynamics. Neither is explored in a satisfying way.
The anthropologist on the verge of explaining what happened just 50 years ago is a weird idea (I got this number from a single throwaway sentence that was ambiguous, so if anyone has a different interpretation of the timeline, I am all ears) — everyone she knows over the age of 50, her grandparents and probably her parents (and everyone's), must have survived this tragedy, but we never get a satisfying explanation of why there are zero (now, one) contemporaneous accounts, or even a single post-event account, of what happened or why or how it ended or ... anything. I get that this is supposed to be eerie, but it comes across as just dumb. How did technology go absolutely bonkers after the population was down to .5% of the pre-event level worldwide?
And the story never makes sense of what "siege cities" are or why they are special when everyone was massacred or something, or a dozen other unanswered questions about the why and how of the plot.
Leaving the anthropologist out would really up the gravitas of the diary, explain why we can't explain those things yet, etc.
I feel like I was supposed to think the baddies are just around the corner in both narratives, yet they were so ambiguous and ephemeral, I never had a sense of true danger.
We know the stakes are high and the enemy is unknowable, but why this perspective?
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February 17, 2022
99.5% of humanity were wiped out in 3 short years after They arrived. 50 years later, a team of researchers sift through the ruins of a siege city to better understand the catastrophe. When Emerson finds a survivor’s journal, it feels like the jackpot. But can Eva’s account be taken at face value?
There is so much to unpack in this remarkable novella, which interweaves Emerson’s frustrated efforts against the clock with the horror of Eva’s final months in the unnamed Ukrainian city. So many apocalypse narratives focus on a last ditch defence or the fight back. Here, we get the small stories of life in the ashes, the humanity of a handful of ordinary lives making history only because one woman chose to write them down. It encompasses everything from the civilian experience of war to academic pecking orders, with a side of (implied) cosmic horror.
These Lifeless Things may not be for everyone: it raises far more questions than it answers. We never discover what They were (are?) or how They were defeated (even if They were defeated), and – perhaps inevitably – we never find out what happens to Eva. Shockingly, given my addiction to coherent world-building, I didn’t care. It works brilliantly on its own terms, and keeps us firmly in Emerson’s shoes: the past is a mystery, of which we can only grasp at fragments. Perhaps it resonates so deeply with me because I studied archaeology; perhaps I love it purely as a reader for inviting me to fill its world with my own theories.
Either way: it’s bloody brilliant. These Lifeless Things was one of my Best of 2021, quiet and fierce and unnerving.
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There is so much to unpack in this remarkable novella, which interweaves Emerson’s frustrated efforts against the clock with the horror of Eva’s final months in the unnamed Ukrainian city. So many apocalypse narratives focus on a last ditch defence or the fight back. Here, we get the small stories of life in the ashes, the humanity of a handful of ordinary lives making history only because one woman chose to write them down. It encompasses everything from the civilian experience of war to academic pecking orders, with a side of (implied) cosmic horror.
These Lifeless Things may not be for everyone: it raises far more questions than it answers. We never discover what They were (are?) or how They were defeated (even if They were defeated), and – perhaps inevitably – we never find out what happens to Eva. Shockingly, given my addiction to coherent world-building, I didn’t care. It works brilliantly on its own terms, and keeps us firmly in Emerson’s shoes: the past is a mystery, of which we can only grasp at fragments. Perhaps it resonates so deeply with me because I studied archaeology; perhaps I love it purely as a reader for inviting me to fill its world with my own theories.
Either way: it’s bloody brilliant. These Lifeless Things was one of my Best of 2021, quiet and fierce and unnerving.
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December 10, 2023
Any lovecraftian horror you can kill with a well applied shovel, is not a lovecraftian horror. The rest of the book was as much of a let down. The author of the diary explains little of the events and doesn’t say anything groundbreaking when the time comes for the ‘how to survive’ revelations. The diary reader is too concerned with her own inadequacies to give full attention to the actual research she should be conducting. So why does this story exist?
My other issue with the book is more personal and thus might not bother other readers. There is a certain subset of books, to which I think this book belongs, that use real historical events as inspiration in hopes that a connection to something real would grant them depth. The terrible events are usually the Holocaust, but not always. When taking inspiration from the terrible events the authors do not bother to do actual historical research. They just wing it, relying on what they learned through cultural osmosis. This, in my opinion, is disrespectful to both history and the victims of those terrible events, as it misrepresents the historical facts while giving the readers an illusion that they ‘know’ what really happened.
Like I said, this is a personal issue that may not be an issue for other readers, but I always feel like there is an icky aftertaste when I finish a book that belongs with that sort.
My other issue with the book is more personal and thus might not bother other readers. There is a certain subset of books, to which I think this book belongs, that use real historical events as inspiration in hopes that a connection to something real would grant them depth. The terrible events are usually the Holocaust, but not always. When taking inspiration from the terrible events the authors do not bother to do actual historical research. They just wing it, relying on what they learned through cultural osmosis. This, in my opinion, is disrespectful to both history and the victims of those terrible events, as it misrepresents the historical facts while giving the readers an illusion that they ‘know’ what really happened.
Like I said, this is a personal issue that may not be an issue for other readers, but I always feel like there is an icky aftertaste when I finish a book that belongs with that sort.
May 29, 2025
2.5 stars rounded down. It started with a lot of promise and the writing is really good but I found myself struggling to keep reading during the middle section and the ending was a massive letdown. It also didn’t feel like a horror novella to me personally.
June 1, 2022
Strange and sad and confusing, but very well written. The ending was a little disappointing though.
February 2, 2025
I would comp this book for any video game fans of horizon dawn. This is the best kind of sci-fi and really relit my love for the genre. Do yourself a favour and listen to the audio book
December 15, 2025
Even though I found this book odd and at times confusing, I mostly enjoyed it. I’m drawn to post-apocalyptic stories, and this one stood out for its unusual writing style and the specificity of its worldbuilding. The creatures described were often difficult to picture, and I found myself wishing for illustrations to better visualize certain moments but I think that ambiguity and strangeness are very much the point.
This bleak story unfolds through two points of view: one following a person struggling to survive in the aftermath of the “event,” and another from an anthropologist decades later attempting to piece together what truly happened. The ending is abrupt and leaves many questions unanswered, but it lingers in a way that keeps your imagination working long after the final page.
This bleak story unfolds through two points of view: one following a person struggling to survive in the aftermath of the “event,” and another from an anthropologist decades later attempting to piece together what truly happened. The ending is abrupt and leaves many questions unanswered, but it lingers in a way that keeps your imagination working long after the final page.
March 3, 2025
Really well written, cool spin on the classic alien invasion by making the book a pretty philosophical diary on imperialism and siege. Also two really cool main characters and some really badass feminist perspective
awesome insights and one liners, not the most gripping story for me since almost every single thing was up for interpretation but i dont think that was the authors goal anyway
If you are choosing between this and I who have never known men (only saying this is because I read both recently and they are both short dystopian novels with a lot of connect to real life) id choose this one.
awesome insights and one liners, not the most gripping story for me since almost every single thing was up for interpretation but i dont think that was the authors goal anyway
If you are choosing between this and I who have never known men (only saying this is because I read both recently and they are both short dystopian novels with a lot of connect to real life) id choose this one.
May 13, 2022
As always, Premee's writing is amazing. It's beautiful and evocative. I was entirely enthralled with the world presented both in the diary entries and in the "present" time. Two places that couldn't be more different but shared origins. I adored it. That said, I'm neither smart enough nor deep enough to grasp the fullness of her stories. I can tell you that this one spoke of the nature of humanity and memory and truth and what is truly important. But I also feel like I'm entirely making that up--like a teenager playing at philosophy. I get it, but I can't ever hope to get it. As with all Premee's stories, I'm left thinking and feeling things that confuse me in the best way.
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April 5, 2021Read for the Glasgow in 2024/Rebellion publishing event on 17 April 2021.
December 14, 2021
Every time I read a new Premee Mohamed book, I'm like "oh this is my favorite of what she's written." Every. Single. Time. If this is a curse, I shall live with it.
April 26, 2021
Holy cow! What the heck?!? This was astonishing. A great quick read if you’re looking for something in speculative fiction.
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