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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 08/09/2026

Oooh! I wish I could be there! Stargate was very important for me. To the point that I did this in 2023:

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 19/08/2026

I'm happy to show you the cover for my short story "Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds", coming next month to @reactorsff.bsky.social. This beautiful, enthralling art is by Mirko Ilić. The story is about the limits sentience and about forgiving yourself.

Cover art for short story: It shows Audit of the Collapse and Convalescence of Minds and the author name, Renan Bernardo, below. It shows a vintage-style android with goggling eyes and metal layers on its neck. Half of its head is fused with a female's head and their eyes intersect and shed a tear.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 22/07/2026

I recently had the pleasure of receiving my Nebula Award certificate for Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! Still can't believe my fast-paced thriller about a desperate struggle for life and returning home has been a Nebula finalist 🖤

Me, a white male with a greying beard holding my book, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle and the Nebula Award certificate for Best Novella finalist. I'm smiling and looking at the camera.

The certificate stating that Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is a Nebula Award finalist for best novella in 2026

The book, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, standing on a bookshelf with two Nebula Award finalist pins and some other books behind it

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 09/07/2026

Received my contributor copy of Of Dread, Decay, and Doom (@starsandsabers.bsky.social), which contains my piece "Gravefisher"! Akela craves what corpses hold: the remnants of souls. With them, she can numb herself of what she dreads the most… Memories about the Children.

A book called Of Dread, Decay, and Doom, edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L Poweel and Scarlett R. Algee. The cover consists of horror elements like a fire dragon in the front surrounded by ravens, skulls, and candles.

A page of the book containing Gravefisher by Renan Bernardo

A bookshelf containing several books, including those by Stars & Sabers publishing

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 29/06/2026

I've been in Germany and had the honor of getting a copy of Future Fiction Magazine #10, which contains my piece "When It's Time to Harvest" in German!

Me, a white bearded man holding a magazine. The magazine has its cover in German and contains a female person dancing with a robot with people partying behind.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 18/06/2026

Thrilled to announce that Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is a finalist for the Laureate Award, given by National Fantasy Fan Federation since 1941! 🎉🎉💀🚀

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 02/06/2026

"Can't wait for all those rejection letters in the future."

Me, a young boy about 12 or 13 writing with pen and paper with a funny face, looking sideways.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 27/05/2026

I've got my copy of Multitude by @reasie.bsky.social, now out by @apexmag.bsky.social! I had the honor of blurbing this novella earlier in the year and I can't recommend it enough to you all. If you like first contact stories (with one hell of a twist), go grab it!

A book cover: Multitude by Marie Vibbert. It contains tentacles coming out of the water with a starry background.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 23/05/2026

This AI spammer bot thinks I have a book called Clarkesworld Magazine and is reaching out for a giveaway. 🤦

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 13/05/2026

🇧🇷 No domingo, às 10h, estarei na Acaso Cultural em Botafogo (RJ) com a @janapbianchi.bsky.social e o @diogolsramos.bsky.social em um evento de aniversário da minha novela finalista do Nebula Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, que tá chegando em ptbr ano que vem pela @editoraaleph.bsky.social!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 05/05/2026

Last week I went into an exposition of Yoshitaka Amano's artwork and it was so great and nostalgic! Amano's artwork for Final Fantasy had a deep impact in me. Here are some pics!

Final Fantasy VI illustration: Terra in a mecha. A blonde, white woman wearing red clothes controlling a big, black mecha. She's facing a grey and black city with high towers and baloons.

Final Fantasy II illustration: a warrior in armor, cloak, brandishing a sword. Their helmet is horned and there are pouches on their waist. There's a female face on the background, looking sad.

Final Fantasy VI illustration: Kefka, the villain. A smiling person wearing fun clothes all in red and with some balls along it. It's reminiscent of a clown. He's lying somewhere in a relaxed position, holding his cloak with gloved hands.

Final Fantasy VII illustration: Cloud and Red XIII. A man with spiked hair wearing light armor. He's sitting with his sword beside him on the floor. He's accompanied by a tiger-looking creature. There are shrubs all around and a moon behind them.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 02/05/2026

🇧🇷 E a versão em português de Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle já tem título! Vai sair em 2027 pela @editoraaleph.bsky.social e se chamará O Infame Retorno da Tecelã. 🌌

$Minha foto: um homem branco de barba preta sorrindo e usando óculos. No canto, a frase: finalista do Nebula. Embaixo: O infame retorno da Tecelã Renan Bernardo - em 2027 Na história, após uma missão fracassada, a nave Tecelã tenta retornar à Terra com oxigênio no limite. Responsável por decidir quem vive ou morre, Reva precisa enfrentar um capitão corrupto e confiar em uma antiga inimiga para salvar o filho.$

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 30/03/2026

Got my swag for Of Dread, Decay, and Doom, by @starsandsabers.bsky.social, where I'll publish my dark fantasy piece "Gravefisher" next June!

A postcard. It's the cover of a book. Of Dread, Decay, and Doom. It contains the head of a dragon breathing fire in the front, surrounded by black wings, skulls, and candles.

A white bookmarker. The words "Renan, thank you for 'gravefisher'! Jendia Gammon" are written on it.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 20/03/2026

A reminder that it was probably generative AI that f*cked up the Kap's Needle expedition in my novella 💀

A text: Hexabytes of surveillance logs and libraries filled with countless pages of auto-reports all promised the Kapteyn-d expedition team a great future on the new planet. All the data was wrong.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 16/03/2026

🏆 🌌 I'm BEYOND HAPPY that my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is a NEBULA FINALIST for Best Novella! Thank you all @sfwa.org members who nominated it, and every reader, reviewer, and person who has said something about it. 🖤

A book cover: Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle by Renan Bernardo. It contains a skull in a space helmet with color streaks running across it.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 06/03/2026

It's missing some, but… 9 important games to me.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 27/02/2026

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

A beach. There are some stones, some of them very big and trees on the left side. The water is visible at the right side and there are hills on the back.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 18/02/2026

Thrilled to say that my solarpunk piece "Wet Socks Drying in the Tide" is now reprinted and free to read at @rosesandwf.bsky.social with a beautiful illustration by Thana Meejinda that depicts very well the spirit of this piece! societyforritualarts.com/rw/2025-autu...

A blonde boy in a bycicle looking at a sunset on the horizon. There are mechas moving through muddy water in front of him.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 28/01/2026

I'm pleased to announce that my solarpunk/climate fiction collection, Different Kinds of Defiance, has a new cover art by Hugo finalist @dntlz.bsky.social! I can't express how happy I am with the final result. You can find the new edition in the usual places. 🔆

A hand holding a book cover: Different Kind of Defiance by Renan Bernardo. The upper part of the cover contains trees with golden leaves and the middle contains clouds. In the botoom, there are a few drones flying. There's a blurb by Ai Jiang on the cover.

The book's backcover with the description and the barcode. The top says "Defiance has many faces".

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 14/01/2026

I got my contributor copy of ECO24, which contains my piece The Plasticity of Being! I’m extremely honored to be part of this antho with @anovelescape.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and others! It was edited by the great @marissavu.bsky.social.

Hands holding a black cover with a flower growing wildly, stemming to several directions. The petal is full and resembles smoke at some points. It's called ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Edited by Marissa Van Uden.

One of the anthology pages with the initial text for the story The Plasticity of Being by Renan Bernardo. It also includes his bio.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 07/01/2026

I've got my author copy of We're Here 2024! This beautiful thing was edited by @rykaaoki.bsky.social and @cypayseur.bsky.social and published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social, including my story "The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds", originally published by @diabolicalplots.com. 🚀🏳‍🌈🌌

A hand holding a book called We're Here: The Best of Speculative Fiction 2024. It contains a shirtless, long-haired person riding a fantastical ibex with other people watching. One of them is blowing a horn. There's someone holding a rainbow flag, riding a horse but cut off by the cover. There are trees and a giant moon behind.

A page of the book containing the story "The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds" by Renan Bernardo.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 03/01/2026

In some bit of great news, I finally received the author copies of my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! It spent quite an extended vacation back and forth from customs, but now I finally got them in my hands. 🖤💀

A paper box containing several copies of the book Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, which shows a skull inside an astronaut helmet with colors leaking across it.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 02/12/2025

Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots. Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!

A book cover: Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle showing a skull inside a space helmet.

Myself, a white man in glasses with a beard wearing a t-shirt with a Stargate and a pyramid. I'm holding a book called Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle showing a skull inside a space helmet. Behind me there's a bookshelf with several books.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 29/11/2025

Damn AI. A SF shirt webstore is selling Stargate and BSG t-shirts that make no sense at all. The Stargate shirt has an ugly AI-slop image with random stuff that has nothing to with the shows and the BSG one has a made-up crest that NEVER appeared in any BSG show. WTF.

A black shirt with a round image with a pyramid, some geographical features, and random flying objects poorly drawn.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 24/11/2025

Recently, I received my author copies of the graphic novel of Anticipation of Hollowness, illustrated by Lorenzo Livrieri and adapted by Michele Paris! They're gorgeous and are out in hardcover and paperback. AoH is a solarpunk piece about gentrification, friendship, and social sustainability.

Front cover showing a black woman with cloudy hair and glasses hugging a neglected robot with one broken eye. There's a city with low buildings and trees behind them.

One of the pages showing the interaction between the black woman with glasses and the android in a fancy restaurant. The android is wearing a hat and they're eating some gourmet (but scarce) food.

Back cover showing the synopsis and a small house with a round roof filled with solar panels.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 11/11/2025

Convincing you to read my novella with the first sentence. Add yours if you'd like.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 28/10/2025

Awards Season is upon us! My novella Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle (19,500 words), a dark space opera set in a generation spaceship returning to Earth after a failed expedition, is eligible as Best Novella in the Nebulas, Hugos, Locus and for Best Shorter Fiction in the BSFA.

A moodboard: the book in the center has a black cover with a skull inside a space helmet, and it's called Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Other elements: an astronaut on a deserted planet; the interior of a spaceship with lights beaming on the ceiling; a glazed space helmet; a planet; a mask showing a creepy smile; a woman breathing inside a space helmet; a silhouette of an astronaut wearing a spacesuit; shining stars.

A book cover: Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle showing a skull inside a space helmet. It's written "Eligible as novella for SFF awards like (but also others)" and then the symbols of the awards: Nebula (a circle with a nebula on the background), Hugo (a rocketship), Locus (an astronaut on a gleaming background), BSFA Awards (just the words).

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 12/10/2025

Almost 6 months later (due to issues with customs), I finally have my novella in my hands! Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is a dark space opera about a ship returning to Earth after a failed expedition! 🌌👩‍🚀

A white man in glasses with a black, greying beard in front of a bookshelf. He's holding the book, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, which features a skull in a space helmet. The man's shirt contains two Egyptian figures and a Stargate with a pyramid on its center, plus two staves underneath it.

A book, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, which features a skull in a space helmet. A hand is holding the book.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 05/10/2025

Julie sends her best wishes!!!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 01/10/2025

Spooky season is finally ON! 🎃 If you want to be spooked by oxygen rationing in a spaceship, claustrophobic feelings, and a crew doing ANYTHING to survive, then you might enjoy my short novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Or gift someone with it! 🖤 darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...

A black cover reading Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle. Author is Renan Bernardo, Nebula and Ignyte finalist. The cover contains a skull in a space helmet with colorful streaks leaking up and down. Tags around the cover: powerful narcotic, hostile fungus, coup in a generational ship, degenerate crew, noir vibes, doomed spaceship, dark space opera, sci-fi thriller.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 17/09/2025

Got my finalist certificate for the Argos Award 2024! The Argos Award is the oldest Brazilian SFF award and my novelette A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair was a finalist for it last year, for its Portuguese version in @samovarmag.bsky.social. 🪑

The certificate which reads, in Portuguese: "Prêmio Argos 2024 - clube de leitores de ficção científica. Por meio deste diploma o clube de leitores de ficção científica certifica breve biografia de uma cadeira lúcida (revista samovar), de Renan Bernardo, como obra finalista da categoria melhor conto do prêmio argos".

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 14/08/2025

My contributor copy of Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite, by @starsandsabers.bsky.social, arrived! It contains my fantasy piece The Crumbs of My Body about a tribe that can grow their food on their own body! www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc...

A white hand holding a book cover. The book is called "Of enchantment, enigma, and the infinite, edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L Powell." It features butterflies, a dragon, and a crystal ball in the center with some other fantastic motifs all around.

A page of the book with the story The Crumbs of My Body, by Renan Bernardo. The text follows.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 07/08/2025

I've finally got my contributor copy of Bright Green Futures, which features my solarpunk piece The Doglady and the Rainstorm about a dog walker that just wants to leave the dogs under her care in their homes… and stay away from the inevitable rainstorms. 🐶🌧️☀️

A white hand holding a book with a white cover with several flowers. It's called Bright Green Futures 2024. Edited by Susan Kaye Quinn.

A book page with the story The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo. There's a thin stalk as a divider, and then the beginning of the story.

The back cover of the book with more flowers on a white background.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 05/08/2025

My fantasy piece The Crumbs of My Body is now out in @starsandsabers.bsky.social's Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite! Though Juruaru's body grows his own food, he knows his people's blessing is temporary. While on a quest to end famine in the forest, he's captured by a tribe in pain.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 29/07/2025

Already got my ebook copy of Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinity, a magic anthology by @starsandsabers.bsky.social, which will contain my piece The Crumbs of My Body about a tribe that grows food on their bodies—and what happens when that fails. Print copy is coming!

A cover in a e-reader held by a white hand. It contains butterflies on the left, a crystal ball on the center, and a dragon on the right, all surrounded by haze and sprinkes. It's called Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite.

A story loaded on an-reader. It's called The Crumbs of My Body by Renan Bernardo. It's on page 236.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 26/07/2025

Got my swag from Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite, a @starsandsabers.bsky.social anthology coming Aug 5th! My fantasy piece, "The Crumbs of My Body", about people who grow their food on their own body, will be in it! 🔮

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 22/07/2025

Right-wing Brazilians took to the streets to manifest support for Donald Trump. Look at the multitudes.

A shot from above: Copacabana beach with a small group of people in green and yellow colors. They're on the sidewalk. There are cars parked nearby and some more people on the sand.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 19/07/2025

I think I have a (very rough) first draft 👀

A dialog box with three tabs: compiled, selected docs, options.
Compiled is selected.
Words: 80.055
Characters: 465.198
Characters (No Spaces): 385.290

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 10/07/2025

Name a film flop that you wish had done better at the box office.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 07/07/2025

Thank you for the apologies, Gareth. We're on the same side on this fight. About the cover, it was the version with the complete layout. It was just to show how these tools can fail, anyway. It doesn't mean anything, much less since it's from 2019.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 25/06/2025

Always happy to find a review like this for my (mostly forgotten) collection, Different Kinds of Defiance 🥰💚

An image with the following text: I bought this after reading Disgraced return as I really loved it. This was a wonderful collection of short stories. Such a rare treat to have environmental post apocalyptic fiction that ended up feeling postive and hopeful. The last story in particular stuck with me as a woman driven story, this wasn't a future where women were reduced to having children and the men were all warriors. It felt so much more realistic. There were still the now problems of money vs poverty, and the way both drove people to different types of crime. But also there was shared humanity and care for each other, and found family. I really enjoyed all the stories and will definitely pick up all the books Renan writes. I'm looking forward to reading what he does next.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 14/06/2025

I'm currently reading an advanced copy of @patrickbarb.bsky.social's new novel and really digging it! X-Files meets Gone Girl.

An e-reader showing a book called Abducted by Patrick Barb. There's a black sky with stars and a house with a silhouette by the window.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 29/05/2025

Today marks the one-month anniversary of my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! I want to thank everyone who has take the time to read it, review it, and leave a comment about it. You can get in paperback and ebook, but an audio version is coming! darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...

Baloons with reviews around the book cover of Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle (a skull in a space helmet):

"A claustrophobic sci-fi horror novella that will have you gasping for air."

"An amazing, impactful novella. I wasn’t expecting that ending. Just, wow."

"Bernardo really excels at creating a tense atmosphere."

"Perfect if you are looking for an impactful bite of the genre; Bernardo is a voice to keep a tab on!"

"A tense, clever, and dark exploration of the potential follies of space exploration."

"The ending is a total gut punch! Truly a top read of the year!"

Arrows pointing to the book cover (a skull in a space helmet) with the tags: hallucinations, walk of shame in space, deadly fungus, a game of interests for breathable air, too much greed, mother's quest to save her son, first officer's quest to get richer and more powerful, enemies to... even more enemies.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 14/05/2025

Found this old pic from 2013 in NY, featuring @hntdove.bsky.social sneaking from the flank after an army of Tolkiens.

Two bookshelves with lots of JRR Tolkien books and a few from Harry Turtledove

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 13/05/2025

Some nice reviews of Kap's Needle popping out! You can get the book in paperback and ebook! darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...

Five stars with the text: "If you're looking for a story with no good guys, this could be for you. The motivations seem all to real and you get pulled along by the planet colonization adventure. Everyone gets what they deserve.

Well paced and a satisfying quick read."

Five stars with the text: "The title story is barely a novella, it's so short, but the tale of a spaceship forced to abort its mission to colonize a new planet and return - ten years in space each way - was so richly written that it didn't feel short at all. Broken people making difficult, even impossible, decisions."

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 09/05/2025

"Pause! Before you scroll further, quote this with at least one book you're looking forward to in the rest of this year." There are several, but I'll mention @lyndseycroal.bsky.social's collection!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 08/05/2025

Just realized I was in Vatican on May 8th, 2014.

Me, a white man with short black hair and short black beard, wearing an X-Men t-shirt, in front of St. Peter's Basilica at Vatican: a domed and large building made of white marble. I'm looking at the camera. There are empty chairs on my right.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 30/04/2025

Bright Green Futures has been spotted in Brilliant Books at Traverse City, Michigan! 🔆🌏🌳

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