Hey, anyone interested in beta'ing a relatively unserious HR Centaurs-era fic?

I need to talk about how much I identify with Shane Hollander for a bit.( my brave little autistic toaster )

James Islington, The Shadow of What Was Lost: I liked Islington’s Strength of the Many, but didn’t connect with this separate fantasy world, where people with psychic powers are bound not to resist people without them. Islington doesn’t lean very hard into the really negative consequences of that; instead there’s a lot of complicated factions, apparent time travel or time loops, and other interconnections.

Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep: Vinge writes at multiple scales—galactic Powers that can destroy entire civilizations and children orphaned by the crash of their spaceship and subsequent attack by the multiple-mind doglike entities on the world where they landed. It was ambitious and often interesting, but there was a lot to follow.

William Gibson & Pat Cadigan, Alien3: Novelization of unproduced script; it was basically ok for a novelization but didn’t have the kind of snap that the 80s novelizations sometimes had. There was too much repetition of the concededly great line “nuke it from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.” You can see why they wanted Joss Whedon to punch up the dialogue of the actual movie (which has a completely different plot).