David H.’s Reviews > Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays > Status Update
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The Far Side of the Door - Mohamed: Colonists start falling from an apparent virus, but is it?
Ranya's Crash - Krieg: Ranya is from a group of abandoned humans on an incredibly strange and talkative planet (dragonflies are sassy), and here she seeks help from a dragonfly.
Spiral - Ratnakar: Weird mind thingy in space dust life.
— Dec 27, 2025 09:26PM
Ranya's Crash - Krieg: Ranya is from a group of abandoned humans on an incredibly strange and talkative planet (dragonflies are sassy), and here she seeks help from a dragonfly.
Spiral - Ratnakar: Weird mind thingy in space dust life.
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Still as Bright - Kowal: Imogene has a plan to detect exoplanets, if she can get anyone to listen.
Devil in the Deep - Lukačovičová: People in a Bolivian mine make a discovery about "El Tio"...
Deep Blue Neon - Bianchi: Seeking out a mysterious whale in the South Pacific.
— Dec 28, 2025 07:30PM
Devil in the Deep - Lukačovičová: People in a Bolivian mine make a discovery about "El Tio"...
Deep Blue Neon - Bianchi: Seeking out a mysterious whale in the South Pacific.
David H.
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The Dangers We Chose - Older: A fun first contact story with underwater aliens.
Third Life - Czerneda: An alien with multiple phases in their life.
Forever the Forest - Heller: An intriguing sentient forest learns to communicate in some way with a crash-landed human.
— Dec 28, 2025 06:01PM
Third Life - Czerneda: An alien with multiple phases in their life.
Forever the Forest - Heller: An intriguing sentient forest learns to communicate in some way with a crash-landed human.
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The Diaphanous - Benford: An AI has an interesting discussion with plasma creatures out in the void.
The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj - Rappatta: This was just plain fun, I quite liked it, figuring out if these space creatures are sentient or not.
Defective - Watts: I could see this was interesting, I just couldn't understand Ondrej or the Agni situation.
— Dec 28, 2025 02:01AM
The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj - Rappatta: This was just plain fun, I quite liked it, figuring out if these space creatures are sentient or not.
Defective - Watts: I could see this was interesting, I just couldn't understand Ondrej or the Agni situation.
David H.
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The Mirrored Symphony - Spires: First contact with mirror aliens.
Lumenfabulator - Liu: Crystal creatures with poems.
Cyclic Amplication, Meaning Family - Takács: Solving first contact linguistics issues with prions!
— Dec 28, 2025 12:55AM
Lumenfabulator - Liu: Crystal creatures with poems.
Cyclic Amplication, Meaning Family - Takács: Solving first contact linguistics issues with prions!
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The Last Cathedral of Earth, in Flight - Buckell: A ship of humans running from creatures evolved by a planet near a black hole.
The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery - Ivanov: A young woman at astronomer camp makes a startling discovery. Very good.
Human Beans - Bacon: Bizarre story of people being whisked away from Earth.
— Dec 27, 2025 11:34PM
The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery - Ivanov: A young woman at astronomer camp makes a startling discovery. Very good.
Human Beans - Bacon: Bizarre story of people being whisked away from Earth.
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The World of Silver - Petrásek: A human and an alien survive a crash and work together to survive the ice.
Spider Plant - Fisher: Trying to find the source of a radio signal from a planet without apparent civilization.
This is How We Save Them - Olukotun: Animal conservation in the future.
— Dec 27, 2025 08:27PM
Spider Plant - Fisher: Trying to find the source of a radio signal from a planet without apparent civilization.
This is How We Save Them - Olukotun: Animal conservation in the future.
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Cloudskimmer - Landis: Researchers in orbit around Venus find something in the clouds.
The Lament of Kivu Lacus - Zelkovich: Two researches deal with impending loss, while observing the local Titan whales. Good.
Heavy Lies - Larson: Well, that was freakin' weird. Alien intelligence (or is it?).
— Dec 27, 2025 06:14PM
The Lament of Kivu Lacus - Zelkovich: Two researches deal with impending loss, while observing the local Titan whales. Good.
Heavy Lies - Larson: Well, that was freakin' weird. Alien intelligence (or is it?).
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Hemlock on Mars - Choi: Making a tough decision about whether or not to cancel a mission to Mars to protect potential Martian life.
The Dog Star Killer - Bernardo: A young girl grows up to try to rescue her mother in space. Sweet.
Titan of Chaos - Nordley: A submarine stuck in an iceworm on Titan appears to be part of a murder plot.
— Dec 27, 2025 04:17PM
The Dog Star Killer - Bernardo: A young girl grows up to try to rescue her mother in space. Sweet.
Titan of Chaos - Nordley: A submarine stuck in an iceworm on Titan appears to be part of a murder plot.
