Our third story is from another prompt I loved: I’m always a sucker for galactic communities and biochemistry, and @wheatles has done both justice with a tight narrative set in a backstreet clinic. I really like this one as it takes something that’s an …
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Cor, I reckon this is my favourite one so far. It’s very human and very alien at the same time.
I love the greed in her. The ambition is really evident, and it’s interesting to read all the effects of adrenaline that I hadn’t thought about. Excellent core concept, whoever that was!
Warrior nerds!
I struggled to get my head around the chronology. Was it that galactic civs had outlawed adrenalin & then humans had showed up, agreed to quit having adrenal glands… But… Gonna have to read it again I think!
Hello! Totally fair point – to clear up, it’s legally banned after man shows up and kicks off, but prior to that most sentient species had already voluntarily got their adrenal glands removed. Only humanity would cling onto a drug that makes us addicted to doing life-endangering things (sky diving, bungee jumping etc). We’re idiots.