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Atoms Never Touch

By micha cárdenas & adrienne maree brown
Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas & adrienne maree brown digital book - Fable

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Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance. 

Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently?

Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances. But she is haunted by the lovers and family that she cannot trace back to, and fears she might be separated from them forever. 

Each time she transits into a new time and space, everything shifts—even the films and writing Rea produces readjust their molecules to match her new quantum reality. But Rea, a brilliant lay scientist, is determined to crack the code, and end her quest for lasting connections and home. 

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“One of the worst books I’ve ever read, I’m shocked it had such a glowing foreword. I’ve read fanfiction written by middle schoolers going through traumatic life events that had better writing and characters than this uninspired drivel. This book should be used to warn authors of the dangers of crafting an entire book using telling instead of showing. I’m bored. I’m annoyed. I’m laughing out loud at lines saying stuff like “The response was due to her childhood trauma that was later worsened by sexual assault.” Is this the first draft of notes for a book? What editor and publishing company green lit this? Are we really letting stories be published on the basis that their characters are diverse and support a marginalized community? This honestly reads like crappy satire. It’s so unbelievably cliched and embarrassing. The political antagonist are thinly veiled inserts of Trump and ICE, without any meaningful or insightful views on oppressive government and the atrocities they commit. You can’t just say they’re bad and leave it at that. The MC is flat and boring and I couldn’t care less about her being torn away from everyone she loves because apparently she can just go to the gym, describe her workout routine for half a chapter, and then move on. Seriously, the descriptions of barbell snatches were more detailed than the theoretical traversing of dimensions. Don’t read this. If this wasn’t assigned reading I would’ve thrown this into a fire after the first few paragraphs. Waste of time.”
“Original concept but unevenly paced with some plot holes. Big fan of the idea of trans SFF and I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. A great deal of the writing felt clunky and forced, without subtlety or nuance.”

About micha cárdenas

micha cárdenas is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and filmmaker. 


She is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Performance, Play and Design, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

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