![]() ![]() ![]() The Darkness Outside Us is not a cutesy space rom-com. The middle of this book will hit you like a two ton heavy thing. It’s one of the best right up there with They Both Die at the End, but with a more satisfying ending by far. This one didn’t get the love it deserved at publication time. I’m a bit behind where I want to be in my reading and reviewing this month, so enjoy a favorite from last year while I play catch up on my reading and also plan for Lent. Even my sorrow about my insignificance is insignificant.” – Eliot Schrefer, “The Darkness Outside Us” Somehow, space is so deeply melancholy that it’s not at all sad, like a note so low it ceases to sound. The thought makes me feel lavishly alone. In space, without any atmosphere to cloud my view, even that void resolves into more distant pricks of light. I look into the voids in between, a nothingness more absolute than any vacuum on Earth. All those nuclear explosions sending out light waves, a very few of whose fate is to dissipate on my retinas. ![]()
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