Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Education had taken something from her. She could not just BE.”

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

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Despair, hope, and the future of our world. Also, what does it mean to be a good parent? Big aspirations for a science fiction novella, but boy are they met. Plot: Elephants are going extinct, yet for some reason, there are still scientists spending their lives studying them. Dr. Damira Khismatullina is one of these people. She has spent a lifetime learning about the habits of elephants in the wild, and protecting them from humanity. Unfortunately, humanity is actually quite good at eradicating things like […]

The Grief of Wisdom

Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler

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That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us. – Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NKJV). Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried reminds me of the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is, in my mind, the least hopeful and most useful book of the Bible. All of this has happened before, and […]

“The message is connection”

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

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I have heard the theory that the octopus is actually an alien species – something about their DNA, and their uniqueness in both the deep sea and really anywhere else on Earth. I have fallen asleep to the documentary My Octopus Teacher a few times (one of these days I’ll make it all the way through!). I generally believe that there’s likely to be another species out there, somewhere (whether galaxies away or hidden in the depths of our oceans) that has a similar intelligence to […]



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