Solitary Journeys, Shared Souls
Published on 2024-12-01
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With these five fantastic tales, we explore the idea of “Solitary Journeys, Shared Souls.” Meet an alien species whose communal memories include seeing ‘a rock so green it hurt,’ and a man institutionalized for curing the psychic pain of others. Then there is the floral intelligence that communicates by digesting its… prey? Lover?
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