Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

Daryl Gregory
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Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

thegooddoctor
2/28/2022
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Starts off well, but thestory meanders and muddles aimlessly through the protagonist's life before finally sputtering to a halt. If I am going to put in the time for an entire novella, I am hoping for something better than this. (Shout out to slow readers everywhere!) There certainly are excellent stories in thsi collection - for example, "Mother Tongues" by S. Qiouyi Lu is outstanding.

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