TPi – August 2020
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Name: TPi – August 2020
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Book:
Title: The Last Gifts of the Universe
Author: Riley August
Language: angielski
Year: 2024
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Del Rey UK
ISBN: 9781529934892
Total pages: 84
Description:
A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.
When the home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell these worlds is unknown. All they know is that they are the last ones left – and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.
Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals – anything left behind that might be useful to home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.
Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes-fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.
► I’d call it required reading for the end of the world. Riley August has written a poignant masterpiece that transcends the death of stars. ◄ OLIVIA ATWATER
► A quietly wonderful, hopeful novel that heals the parts of you that you didn’t know were hurt. ◄ JULIE LEONG
► A science fiction novel that will repair your soul with its beautiful, uplifting earnestness in the face of true peril ◄ NADIA EL-FASSI
► As sweet as it is sad, as homely as it is strange, The Last Gifts Of The Universe is about the real work of having hope and compassion ◄ ALICE BELL
► Somehow both a hauntingly beautiful meditation on grief and loss, as well as a delightful space-faring romp…I’m honestly in awe. ◄ G. M. NAIR
► It flows brilliantly, with brevity and wit. ◄ ALEX HORMANN
READERS ADORE THE LAST GIFTS OF THE UNIVERSE…
***** ‘excellent and thought provoking’***** ‘More books should have judgmental, emotionally supportive orange cats in spacesuits.’
***** ‘the story of how a person’s desperate need for answers teaches them how to accept loss’
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► I love everything about this book. It is SO well-written, with an incredibly strong voice that grabbed me from the very first page. Brilliant characters, world-building, plot, pacing, mystery and intrigue. (…)The book takes you on a journey spanning the stars and the ages (and my god, Ovlan),and shines a light on all those deeply personal, emotional stories we have. How we’re connected (despite our differences). It’s about life. Fear. Dreams. Hopes. Love.
People trying to do their best (I love that). People messing up. Consequences. Trust. Final words. All of it.
(,,,) the book shows the right amount of reverence, humour, nihilism, that it all feels so meaningful. The humour lands. The tension feels real. The relief is palpable.
The Remnants, in particular, are terrifying.
Oh, and Pumpkin is the MVP!
For such a short book, it packs one incredible punch.
Although this comes across as an overall light-hearted read – and it is for the most part – the emotions are so strong, the descriptions vivid, and the feelings extremely real, that it kind of transcends that. It becomes something so much more, so meaningful. How it touches on grief and loss is so magical it might as well be fantasy. ◄ L.L. MacRae, Goodreads, 27 sierpnia 2022
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First (self)published in 2022 as August Rory
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