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	The Outside (The Outside, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 3,204 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Machine of Death, #2) by Ryan North (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Bennardo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Malki (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,106 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fallen (The Outside, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite (The Outside #3) 4.20 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula R. Stiles (Editor), Nick Mamatas 3.31 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scrape of Tooth and Bone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monsters In My Mind 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrections 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ignore All Previous Instructions 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — expected publication 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Million-Year Elegies 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lots has been happening as early buzz builds for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, but I think I’ve been posting in my Buttondown newsletter and forgetting to copy to the website / Dreamwidth. In case you missed it, here are the two news posts from the first month and a half of this year:

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“SIR, Enga said presently, I SHOT HER. BUT YASIRA SHOUTED AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. “Yes, Enga. That’s called the chain of command.” I BROKE PART OF MY ARM SAVING THE HUONGS, AND THEY HAVE BEEN THROWING THEMSELVES AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. IS THAT THE CHAIN OF COMMAND? WHY CAN’T I HAVE A HUONG?”
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“Well, it did what Outside usually did in stories. Showed up. Violated all the known laws of physics. Killed some people and drove the rest mad.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

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“Universal acceptance can exist, I think, only as a failure of the imagination.”
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 496p

4 votes, 30.8%

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler, 306p

3 votes, 23.1%

The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes, 480p

3 votes, 23.1%

The Rig by Roger Levy, 618p

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, 304p

1 vote, 7.7%

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, 401p

0 votes, 0.0%

In the Quick by Kate Hope Day, 272p

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The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, 169p

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Forget Me Not by Alexandra Oliva, 352p

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The End of October by Lawrence Wright, 400p

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Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden, 112p

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