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chukg.bsky.social · @chukg.bsky.social@bridge.neodb.net

Rated A Half-Built Garden 10/10

This was great -- set on Earth where watershed networks are collaboratively reclaiming Earth after climate catastrophe, and then suddenly, aliens! The future society and setting would have been enough for a whole story on its own, then it's first contact, then there's more twists and additions. One minor caveat is that the ideas and relationships are great, but I felt like there was a bit more distance than I liked from the first person narrator, but that might have been on purpose to show things about the character herself. Found families and lots of gender/LGBTQ representation (including from the aliens) and everything was handled really well, I'd love to see more in this setting.

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Published 2026-08-18 17:57 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere