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Brightness Falls From The Air

  
 
Cat Chant
08:15 / 21.04.02
I just read this and fuck me, it's good. I had no idea where it was going until it got there, and I couldn't even tell you where it was it got. But really, how can anyone complain about a story about a bunch of child porn stars saving winged humanoids from Humans who want to torture them in order to make them secrete drugs? While MEANWHILE a nova is passing through the planet? Except it's not a nova, it's the remains of a structure which represented/memorialized an entire civilization? And oh, look, the last member of said civilization has suddenly turned up! And so has the person who blew up the structure in the first place!

Now tell me what else to read. Apparently James Tiptree Jr wrote a bunch of stuff about futuristic methods of reproduction? Give me titles, people, titles...
 
 
grant
19:06 / 22.04.02
Is the drug in that one called "Star's Tears"?

If so, I remember reading it a long time ago.
If not, there's another similar novel out there, about which I remember nothing. Except winged humanoid aliens who secrete a drug under duress, and a race of blue dwarf people who are looking for their lost home planet.
 
 
Cat Chant
07:47 / 23.04.02
Yes - it is Star's Tears, but there is no race of blue humanoid dwarfs looking for their home planet (dunno where that's from - there must indeed be a similar novel)
 
 
grant
17:38 / 24.04.02
Jabulani?

The one I'm thinking of involved some diasporic race, a former slave race, maybe, who eventually find people like themselves, but then have to leave them because they drink Star's Tears.

Their blueness and dwarfness may be an extrapolation from cover art. It was *decades* ago.
 
  
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