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Can you leave your heart on the other side of the galaxy?When Wouter, a down-to-earth dyslexic caretaker, accidentally activates a travel disc sent by his late brother, he finds himself whisked away to a distant planet. Desperate to go home and reassure his grieving mother he’s alive, he’s instead stuck…


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This is a fascinating story, a sci-fi tale at heart with an ace romance subplot between kindred spirits who are literally from two different worlds. Wouter and Nif find an unexpected kinship and forge a bond that neither one expects, a love that’s no less real and valid for its lack of a sexual consummation. Which is the point.

I loved the bani, the way this alien race expresses themselves through color that lends the story an additional level of meaning. As bani and human start to figure each other out, it’s also a joy to see the humans…

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