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In spite of its incredibly long title, Some Features Of Living Matter in the Neighborhood Of the Sun is actually quite a short novella. Part science-fiction, part climate-fiction, the story is papert-hin simple: a mother and a daughter take a boat trip along a river to share good moments before one of them leaves for Mars.

Focusing on the characters' humanity, Zachary Tanner offers us unlimited and un-gendered love and affection through solidarity and respect. 

Written in prose with a Pynchonian twist, it is one of the most beautiful and optimistic hymns to humanity I have read for a long…

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