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It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science. Contact is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

March 18, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn’t going to get you anywhere. And I’m not so sure about it being noble – not if it’s idiotic at the same time. ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris It’s what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope! ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris Kelvin is finally on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: classic sci-fi, Conquerors, cosmic horror, first contact, humanity, space exploration, Speculative Fiction, Stanislaw Lem

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: classic sci-fi, Conquerors, cosmic horror, first contact, humanity, space exploration, Speculative Fiction, Stanislaw Lem ·
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Making me feel glad to feel the wind on my face

Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

February 18, 2020 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

It seems that the things I’m most fascinated by are those that also frighten me the most. Afraid of the deep sea, I’ll spend months reading about naval horrors, devour tales of explorers (whether they survived or not) while also preferring to not really leave my house, and frequently consider booking a trip through the Paris Catacombs despite being somewhat claustrophobic with a face-clawing terror of actually being underground. Perhaps that’s why I found this book so deeply interesting – an exploration of places I […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Environment, humanity, nature, non fiction, Robert Macfarlane

TheShitWizard's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Environment, humanity, nature, non fiction, Robert Macfarlane ·
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