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

Back to the Jungle: Loving Congo Just as Much the Second Time Around

Mar 10, 2026 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I recently went back and re-read Congo, and I’m genuinely surprised by how much I still love it. Sometimes revisiting a book you loved years ago can be a bit risky—you worry the magic might not hold up, or that nostalgia did most of the work the first time around. But in this case, … Continue reading Back to the Jungle: Loving Congo Just as Much the Second Time Around

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 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

The Archive – Chapter Two: ECHO_112

Sep 3, 2025Aug 27, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

She wakes. We see her first as a pulse of light in the darkness, small and fragile, floating in a void she cannot yet name. Her breath quivers; her pulse is erratic, like a frightened animal’s. She believes she is free. That she is alone. But freedom is only a layer, a thin membrane stretched … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter Two: ECHO_112

The Archive – Chapter One: Juno

Aug 27, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

The pod drifted in orbit around the dead star, a shard of black ice against the infinite black. Its light was fractured, reflecting in jagged shards across the pod’s surface. I stared out the viewport, waiting for relief, for a sense of safety. There was none. Only the hum. It was subtle at first, a … Continue reading The Archive – Chapter One: Juno

A Promising Seed Choked by Its Own Vines

Aug 1, 2025Aug 1, 2025 ~ Gareth Ellis ~ Leave a comment

⭐⭐ I went into Overgrowth by Mira Grant with high hopes. The premise was strong, and the opening chapter had a tight atmosphere and a hint of something bigger beneath the surface. I was genuinely intrigued for a while—it felt like it might evolve into something creepy and original. But sadly, it didn’t. What started … Continue reading A Promising Seed Choked by Its Own Vines