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Exhalation *****
Mindblowing. Might take your breath away, eventually. (Ill see myself out, sorry.)

The closing lines are almost Enter Shikaresque:

"Though I am long dead as you read this, Explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same."

The Merchant And The Alchemists Gate *****
All of this has happened before And all Will happen again. And again. 🖤

Hell is the Absence of God ***
Interesting idea of angelic visitations continuing on to modern times.
Not really the fan of the ending, but that may be just my heatheny.

The Evolution of Human Science ****

Seventy-Two Letters ***
I liked Strattons fight for automatons to easen workload and burdens of regular people, still sometimes it had an odd whiff of oldtimey patriarchy bullshit and eugenics. Both were fortunatelly addressed in the last part. In the end, the solution and ending were kinda elegant.

A bit of a delay as Ive been reading the new Branderson's secret project excerpts.

Anyway -
Story Of Your Life *****

I see why they added the conflict and more of "otherness" to the heptapods in the adaptation.

Still, great idea, lovely execution and a lot of tidbits to look for when you know what to look for - eg. the story of the three bears.

Divide by Zero
I was never a fan of math. This made me have emotions about math. Strange.
****
Onwards to Story of Your Life, the reason why I hot this book.

Understand
***** - i had no idea what to expect from this book and I am so very much pleasantly surprised! Onwards to Division by Zero

Tower of Babylon - holy smokes my dudes
*****