A radio transmission from another planet is picked up by a SETI sattelite and first contact is made by four Jesuit priests, a young astronomer, a doctor and her retired engineer husband, and a child prostitute turned genius AI scientist. Heart-wrenching, beautiful and awful and hopeful and hopeless. Kind of changed my life.
A review of research on genetics, tool-usage, behavior, and more, describing "solely human" traits that are found in other animals (fire-starting, tool-making, fashion), and traits that are actually uniquely human.
Recommended to me as "residential treatment facility for children surviviors of magical quests a la Narnia"
semi-fix-it Archivist Gerry fic of The Magnus Archives. Gerry is written with EDS, POTS, and DID (just like me!)
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