Status Updates From Aden

La pianura assolata si estendeva uniformemente in tutte le direzioni, liscia, giallastra, in lontananza si ergevano le esili sagome che avevano scorto il giorno prima, ma in piena luce era chiaro che non fossero alberi. Il cielo sopra di loro era azzurro come sulla Terra e all'orizzonte e assumeva una sfumatura nettamente verdastra. Vaporose nuvole evanescenti si spostavano quasi impercettibilmente verso nord.

They made a second friend. Aww

They're using an air compressor to blow radiation out of the engine room lol. That's not how that works lol. I'm glad I don't live in 1989 when this book released. I would totally have chewed on uranium as a baby and not known any better.

Fascinating how visual this all is. For like two seconds, I wondered if having illustrations would help, but then I read chapter 7 and honestly, I'm not sure I need it. Do I understand how this structure works biologically? No. But I sure can picture it. Anyone else seeing the structure on the planet Krytis from SPOP but with way more skeletons? No? Just me?

This is the closest I've seen in book form to Scavengers Reign. There are probably others as well on my tbr, but this is kind of weird how much I'm seeing the influence.

That was supposed to be 11% not page 11 oops

I am only on chapter 2, and I can immediately identify one particular episode of Scavengers Reign was directly inspired by this. It's the episode where the two people go through the thick hedge. Chapter 2 of this we have encountered a thick hedge which they might go through. There's some other stuff in the summary that reminds me of that episode. For example, the creature that has a very short life cycle. Interesting