/lit/ - Literature

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Border Guards (1999)
A Jewel story. Immortals play Quantum Soccer. An unknown woman appears and tells the story of her life. Even several millennia later, some memories remain open wounds. Death is derided, as few remember it.
Enjoyable

The following three stories take place in the Amalgam universe.
Riding the Crocodile (2005)
After being married for over 10,000 years, a couple decides to go on one last adventure, to understand that which remains unknown. 10,000s of years pass by as they travel, though they subjectively experience no time for almost any of it.
Enjoyable

Glory (2007)
Researchers travel to a relatively undeveloped planet to study the artifacts of an ancient civilization before the contemporary culture destroys everything because they revere only war and expansion.
Enjoyable

Hot Rock (2009)
Researchers travel to a planet thought to be uninhabited to see if any cultural legacy remains, though what they find is far more than could have ever been reasonably expected.
Ok

Oceanic (1998)
20,000 years ago from their present, posthumans came to the planet. To the last they gave up immortality and eventually technology, cut off from the rest of humanity. Over the many 1,000s of years various religions came into existence. The protagonist was born into what is considered by many to be a fundamentalist cult. As he grows older his relation to the religion of his birth changes. There's also an explicit sex scene which ends with an intriguing biological process.
Enjoyable