Nobody needs to, with the Mesh inside us all-consuming and all-connecting: every memory uploaded to the cloud in an instant, high-res. I can only explain the fantasy as a kind of grief.

Through their practice of mutualism, the humans and Stevland engage in a variation of Marder’s “ethics of vegetal life,” consuming one another, in exchange for mutually beneficial arrangements. They …

Needless to say, it doesn’t go well. You also have The All-Consuming World coming out with Erewhon in August, a science fiction novel with a dash of mystery, featuring a group of former criminals. What …

My need to reach Mars was all-consuming. Then, the spaceship carrying my stroked-out body left Earth’s atmosphere and tore my ghost from the planet like a fresh scab.

Its length was immeasurable, curling around itself in knots, twisting through the labyrinthine passages of the tomb, consuming everything it touched. The fleshy skin of the worm was covered in the faces of …

They found them to be too unreliable, and very time-consuming to manage. The waste treatment system had contamination problems and became very unpleasant, always a hazard with biological systems.

To halt this consuming astrophobia from paralyzing her, she backtracks to the front door of her old home with her father and stepmother. “Hello?” she calls out, but her voice echoes and loops behind her …