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ZOMG the voice of this narrator. And Valente's similes: "Her voice cast a shadow in my soul like the underside of a church pew."

Valente is a wordsmith par excellence.

Court intrigue! Plot is racing by. Bennett really has a winning formula in Ana and Din.

Not even halfway, and Ana's already getting a confession?

Oh how I've missed you Ana!

"You know, you are not a stupid person, Din."
"Thank you, ma'am," I said, pleased.
"Or, rather, not an unusually stupid person."
"Thank you, ma’am,” I said, far less pleased.

"Our Expedition" was the best thing that happened to me today. Better than a certain World Cup halftime show even.

Oof, and "Amnesia Machine" is downright Orwellian.

Ok, well that last one, about the dugong, is more melancholic.

Fantastic art and flash fictions that leave you smiling inside.

We all knew it would happen. But the manner of.... that's some outside-the-box thinking, AT. Brilliant.

LOL -> “Get back to work. Mike was always nuts.” “I thought you liked him.” “Sometimes you like nuts.”

I have a bad feeling about this? -> "I cannot infiltrate you with my bodies. Perhaps I can do so with my mind."

This-> “War’s a human thing,” I said, but hollowly. Maybe war was actually the one universal thing, after thermodynamics. Everything fights, in the end.

Lol, all this time I was thinking our narrator (Juna) was a dude.

"...the immensity of the globe has been shrunk for me." Crikey, humans. You're rolling around the planet in the eternal dark, bowling over aliens, flying your drones like you own the place. And then this happens. What. Have. You. Done?!

Oh snap! "We had, inadvertently, given these Shrouded the air."

What an observation! "I had to stay strong for her, just like she was staying strong for me. Normally this would have been because you couldn’t show your weak spots, in case they were brought up in your next appraisal and ended up degrading your wage-worth. But right then it was because she was the only person I had in the world, and if I exploded on her, then that would just have been more weight for her to carry."

Nice construction: "I was not happy. I couldn’t even draw a map from where I was to happy, not in the dark like I was."

"_Not the caves_, I tell it, and make sure I draw its notice to the threat. Yet into the caves it goes." Alien face palm.

Lol, buffing vs. resourcing.

C'mon li'l probe...

This is a cool alien mentation model: a distributed identity that attenuates with distance and eventually calves into a new iteration.

Heck yeah.