I am currently reading Salvage.
This is web original fiction and not a physical book, but I thought I should post this anyway since it is like cocaine, both figuratively and literary(see what I did there ).
The story is a part of this fictional universe on reddit:The Jenkinsverse
Quote:
"The thing about evolving on a death world is that you don't really realise you're doing so until you get the chance to leave it. Up to that point the presence of carnivorous monsters, venomous micropredators, extreme climatic conditions, geological instability, the most lethal cocktail of microbial and viral life forms in the galaxy and of course the crushing gravity, seemed entirely natural. Until we left Earth we thought ourselves rather weak, frail, defenceless creatures because we only had earth fauna to compare ourselves to. You can imagine our surprise then, upon joining the galactic community to find ourselves in fact to be enormous, robust and insanely dangerous in our own right."- Anonymous.
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Reality is an illusion.