Science, Survival and Another Trip Across the Stars: Revisiting Project Hail Mary

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another of this year’s re-reads for me, and revisiting Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir felt oddly well-timed considering the film adaptation has recently come out. I haven’t actually seen the movie yet, but it definitely pushed the book back to the front of my mind. Sometimes a re-read can flatten the excitement a … Continue reading Science, Survival and Another Trip Across the Stars: Revisiting Project Hail Mary

Bending Minds and Reality

Jan 29, 2026 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

⭐⭐⭐⭐ I just finished There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, and I have to say, it’s exactly the kind of weird that gets me excited about fiction. From the very first entries, there’s this uncanny, almost clinical tone that makes you feel like you’re reading a classified briefing rather than a story, and I … Continue reading Bending Minds and Reality

A Nostalgic Reread That Doesn’t Quite Hold Up

Dec 24, 2025Dec 29, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

⭐⭐⭐ When I first read The Lost World years ago, I remember absolutely tearing through it. I loved it almost as much as Jurassic Park, which is no small thing. At the time, it felt like a worthy continuation: more dinosaurs, more danger, more of that Crichton techno-thriller momentum that made his work so addictive. … Continue reading A Nostalgic Reread That Doesn’t Quite Hold Up

A Classic I Should’ve Read Years Ago

Dec 5, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I finally sat down with Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney after years of loving both the 1956 and 1978 film adaptations, and I’m honestly kicking myself for not reading it sooner. I’ve watched those films so many times—each one with its own charm, its own atmosphere, its own flavour of creeping … Continue reading A Classic I Should’ve Read Years Ago

The Archive – Chapter Eight: SIGNAL // AFTERLIGHT

Nov 12, 2025Nov 12, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

The transmission was faint — weaker than static, buried under cosmic hiss and radiation storms. It should never have been detected. And yet, the SSV Calypso caught it. A single thread of data pulsing across the void, repeating every nineteen minutes: ECHO_402 — SYSTEM STABLE — AWAITING INPUT No one knew what it meant. The … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Eight: SIGNAL // AFTERLIGHT

The Archive – Chapter Seven: Juno

Nov 5, 2025Nov 4, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

There is no air here. Only rhythm. My breath matches the pulse of the corridors. My heartbeat echoes through the walls. Every step I take reverberates back at me, delayed, distorted, as though the ship itself were trying to mimic me — or remind me that it no longer needs me to move. I have … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Seven: Juno

The Archive – Chapter Six: ECHO_402

Oct 16, 2025Oct 16, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

She falters. Not in body—she is still moving, still breathing, still reaching for doors that have no edges—but in mind. Every step she takes splinters into a thousand possibilities. Every thought she clutches vanishes the instant she tries to pin it down. She does not see us. She thinks she is alone. She does not … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Six: ECHO_402

The Archive – Chapter Five: Juno

Oct 1, 2025Sep 30, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

I don’t know how long I was on the floor. Time here stretches like old wires—thin, frayed, ready to snap. At some point, I pushed myself up, but my legs felt borrowed, as though I were operating them through water. My breathing was uneven, sharp in my ears, yet I couldn’t hear its echo. The … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Five: Juno

The Archive – Chapter Four: ECHO_237

Sep 24, 2025Sep 22, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

We shape her. We are the shape. She is the clay. Her thoughts are pliant in our hands, though she does not yet realise she has hands other than ours. We fold her memories into the corridors. Each recollection is a brick, a panel, a seam of light stretching into infinity. She runs, believing the … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Four: ECHO_237

The Archive – Chapter Three: Juno

Sep 10, 2025Sep 9, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

The corridors had changed again. I wasn’t sure how many times I’d circled them—once, twice, twenty—but my lungs burned as though I’d been running for hours. I forced my legs forward, boots clanging against the deck, convinced that if I just kept moving, I would find an exit, or at least something new. But every … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Three: Juno