The Darkness Outside Us

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so i don’t read a lot of sci-fi. i enjoy it but with the world building and complicated words that sound like static in my head, i don’t often have the cognitive capacity for it. but every once in a while, a book like the darkness outside us comes along, demands to be read, and leaves you feeling a little bit empty, a little bit weird, and very contemplative. Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Exploited by Ambrose and Kodiak 's thirteenth clones in Part 5. With thousands of ship tasks outstanding, they kill seven of their eight remaining clone pairs, ensuring that OS will be forced to keep them alive as long as possible. As I said, this is probably a consequence of the way the plot was structured. Because the first part at least had to span a fair while to set everything up, the relationship development seemed to happen quite abruptly. I think this is probably because of the fact there were so many small timeskips, but they weren’t done in a way that was necessarily obvious. So it went from something like Kodiak refusing to eat meals with Ambrose, to suddenly he’s eating them and having conversations. OH MY GOSH THIS BOOK WAS SO (unexpectedly) INTENSE !!!!!! highkey sent me into multiple existential crises,, i can never look at outer space the same way again 🥲 Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch. There’s more that doesn’t add up: Evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship’s operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed—not when he’s rescuing his own sister.

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but beyond that, it’s an exploration of the expanse of the human heart, the human experience, and all it’s capable of. it asks you: what does it mean to live? to love? (clearly not laugh bc i did a lot of crying in this one) what does it mean to exist? also, the expanse of the human heart. the story of kodiak and ambrose is one that is so deeply ingrained in my head and heart. how this is a sci-fi story but they are the brightly burning star at its core. so much happens because of this love that spans space and time, that holds on so tightly, that says “we will find each other again and again”. You'll notice that the book doesn't really have chapters, but 'Parts'. The parts are subdivided into sections headed by the remark 'Tasks Remaining: XXX' Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close

They spend their time doing all sorts of maintenance work on the ship that the ship's OS (operating system) is asking them to. Science fiction has always been my favourite genre (space operas in particular). That being said, there was something about the way Eliot Schrefer established the sense of complete isolation in space that I kept marvelling at. It was so easy to resonate with Ambrose’s feelings of loneliness, fear, and awe while he gazed at the vast nothingness beyond his spacecraft’s windows. There were times I paused in astonishment as I imagined being with the characters, in the centre of endless stars and galaxies. Defrosting Ice King: Kodiak is a surly guy, fully resistant to working with Ambrose unless absolutely necessary...at first, that is. Ambrose's sheer determination to befriend him combined with the extenuating circumstances of their voyage work together to bring him around. Just as an early warning: I'm going to add two layers of spoilers in this review. One for interested readers who want to know more than my ambiguous summary of the plot. And the second one for those who already read the book and who want to discuss it with all things out in the open. i found the plot to be a bit slow and there were plotholes here and there that made zero sense, but it was overall an okay and cute read.

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Despair Event Horizon: When Kodiak and Ambrose kill almost all the clones, they note OS screaming as they do. It goes silent in the immediate aftermath, and in the subsequent years of their lives Ambrose describes it as docile, with the two of them no longer disposable. Insanity used to be a stranger that lived on the other side of the world. Now it's moved next door. It's only a matter of time until it becomes shipmate, lover, self.” Adam and Eve Plot: The true purpose of the Coordinated Endeavor's mission. Ambrose's mother realized that humanity was doomed, and sent a spacefarer each—or rather, several clones of them—from Fédération and Dimokratía with a gestation pod and thousands of zygotes to keep humanity alive. Notable for being an Adam and Eve plot with two men, and one that depended on being two men; if they sent a spacefarer who could become pregnant, they ran the risk of in-space pregnancies and all the complications that could arise from them. The penultimate clone pair goes similarly. At age 38, Kodiak dies of cancer, and in his final journal entry, Ambrose records that he will join him that night. Ambrose describes his skin as "molten bronze" and Kodiak as having olive skin and tan eyes. Strong, positive LGBTQ representation in Ambrose, who's been attracted to male, female, and "third-gender" people; and in Kodiak, who's been intimate with men; and in the romance that develops between them.

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as for this book, i probably enjoyed the execution more than i did the story itself, and i definitely didn't expect it to be so...heavy, but i enjoyed it and now i'm considering asking Boyfriend for a tiny personal rover for my birthday. And then the accumulating hints that one generation leaves for the next, giving them more and more power to outsmart OS. The story progresses with both guys teaming up against their ship's OS who has eyes and ears everywhere and who can even get physical by using one of the Rovers - small wall-bound robots that look like baseballs with tentacles.

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Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor with no memory of a launch. There’s more that doesn’t add up: evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship’s operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed—not when he’s rescuing his own sister. I really started this book because gays in space? yes, please!! but it's At the end of the first chapter I was already crying screaming and throwing up. First the sudden awareness that they're only clones with a short life span until they manage to complete tasks that the ship cannot handle itself. Then the violent deaths over and over and over again. Losing characters that grew on me, only to have the same guys - but different copies - wake up again, starting from zero. Follows Ambrose, who wakes up aboard the Coordinated Endeavour tasked with flying to the moon Titan to rescue his sister - but has no memory of the launch. When he discovers that he's not alone on the ship, the two boys must work together to survive the journey - and learn that love may be the only way to stay alive. The next spoiler fully explains what's going on, please do not read it unless you read the book and want to discuss the outcome in detail:Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close My second doubt was: How do bodies conserved in a fluid last for thousands of years? Don't they disintegrate at some point in time? I believe even deep frozen foods will not remain edible for years, let alone millennia.