The Darkness Outside Us

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And that kept me engaged until the end, despite the slight petering out of tension once it was clear what was going on (although given the plot that could hardly be helped). I would say though, because of the need to repeat parts like it did (I’m trying to describe this in a non-spoilery way), it seemed to move along in a way that affected the character and relationship development. It’s almost like it needed to cut part one down, and have a few more parts where they don’t yet know what’s going on, just to build more suspense. And to delay the relationship forming. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close Scar Survey: Ambrose notices a scar on Kodiak's arm, and with some pressing, Kodiak admits it's from his Training from Hell in Dimokratía's space program. Minimalist Cast: For the entire novel, the only three characters that appear are Ambrose, Kodiak, and OS. Albeit there are several of their clones that appear through the novel. Other characters like Sri and Ambrose's family members are mentioned but do not appear. Apocalyptic Log: Ambrose #13 keeps one for the last clone, updating once a year on the anniversary of his and Kodiak's destruction of the other clones ("Annihilation Day" as he calls it) for 23 years until his death.

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Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Ambrose's paternal DNA comes from the reconstructed sperm of Alexander the Great. He dryly wonders if that's how his mother shows her love for him.Soon, our boys learn that the ship doesn't only have their wellbeing and safety in mind, but obviously seems to follow some higher agenda that the two spacefarers are not aware of and have hardly any chance of finding out - until.... Kodiak and Ambrose redesign one of the rooms to make it a blind spot for OS and build an old fashioned radio antennae. The transmissions that they receive from Earth are not only confusing them - but turn their blood to ice once they begin to understand. I’m splitting this review into three parts: the worldbuilding, the plot, and the characters/relationship. These are probably going in decreasing importance for how they affected my rating, i.e. the worldbuilding was the big one, and the characters were pretty much negligible in comparison. But all of them contributed to the 3.5 star rating. i can't even say much about this book without spoiling it because. damn. the synopsis really doesn't even begin to cover what The Darkness Outside Us is about 😳 (honestly, i feel like it was mismarketed - it's really not as lighthearted as the synopsis makes it seem.....) this book is compared to They Both Die at the End and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, and although i haven't read TBDATE, i'd say that's a pretty accurate comparison. but lmaooooo between this book and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe (which i have read).......damn. i am actually COMPLETELY terrified of outer space now 😩 not that i was planning on ever going there but slkdjfsd Distant Finale: Played with. Part 6 happens 12 thousand years after Part 5. As the final clones awake, they're finally in the new planet. The final parts of the story include a time skip of a year to when the first human zygote gets finally born. Encourages thinking about how humans could travel long distances to other planets: how it could work, what it would take, how a colonization might begin.

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Show Within a Show: Ambrose shows Kodiak a 2459 remake of The Mummy (1932). It's worse than Ambrose remembers, but Kodiak is enthralled. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Darkness_Outside_Us_-_Eliot_Schrefer.pdf, The_Darkness_Outside_Us_-_Eliot_Schrefer.epub

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Yes, it’s emotional and completely heartbreaking but it’s more sci-fi than romance which honestly I’m not mad about. I’m not saying that’s necessarily the wrong way to go, of course. The story is about the mystery, about two individuals who hate each other, isolated in space and forced to work together. I get that. But why would you introduce that worldbuilding if you’re not going to confront it at all? Because throughout it all—and even despite the reveals—the Féderation are good, the Dimokratía are bad. It was, on the whole, unnuanced in that respect.

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I can’t say a lot about this book except that it went in a direction I was least expecting. When you first read the synopsis you think “oh this is going to be a wholesome and emotional sci-fi contemporary read” it’s not. i found the plot to be a bit slow and there were plotholes here and there that made zero sense, but it was overall an okay and cute read. Egopolis: The original Ambrose who remained on Earth suggests in a recording that the clones rename their new home exoplanet Cusk—"That's Mom's dream." Ambrose and especially Kodiak don't care for his suggestion.

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The next spoiler fully explains what's going on, please do not read it unless you read the book and want to discuss the outcome in detail: A: These couple of seventeen year olds are tasked with a rescue mission. They are hurtling through space towards Titan, Jupiter's moon, to save Ambrose's sister. But, unbeknownst to them, That's not the whole truth of their mission. Twists, turns, secrets, lies and so much more make this a epic journey. Grasping the full concept of the story feels like a religious revelation somehow. Knowing that mankind starts anew governed by - literally - Adam and Steve, is such a powerful thought. Generations of humans who will wonder where they came from, who will share tales of the epic love story of their same sex parents that will eventually melt into sacred lore, about gods/ancestors who came down from Heaven.

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With only the ship's operating system and each other to keep them company, Ambrose and Kodiak have to work together to make sure their journey is successful. Federation and Dimokratia (and with today's real world political conflicts in mind: bad tongues would compare them to the US and Russia). A: Close Proximity, First Times, Pseudo-enemies to lovers, Post-apocalyptic, Grumpy sunshine, Hurt-Comfort Science fiction has always been my favourite genre (space operas in particular). That being said, there was something about the way Eliot Schrefer established the sense of complete isolation in space that I kept marvelling at. It was so easy to resonate with Ambrose’s feelings of loneliness, fear, and awe while he gazed at the vast nothingness beyond his spacecraft’s windows. There were times I paused in astonishment as I imagined being with the characters, in the centre of endless stars and galaxies. They spend their time doing all sorts of maintenance work on the ship that the ship's OS (operating system) is asking them to.As mentioned earlier, this is by far my favorite read this year, even though it doesn't have any type of detailed intimate scenes (I'm usually a reader of mm romance), and even the romance is up for a detailed discussion. Would Ambrose and Kodiak have been a natural match if they met on Earth? Most likely not. And yet they became a love story that transcends time and space.