Anabiku [extract from 27 Years of Lazarian Delights]
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“Som 1, 26 hours since dawn. The landing was harder than I expected. My fuel reserves are gone and I’m suffering from the low oxygen levels. I’ve noticed a sulphurous tang on the air. It has been the greatest relief to remove my suit and protect my skin instead with a curious heat-resistant powder which I discovered through pure chance. My sense of touch returned, I ran my fingers across the walls of the cave where I’m camped, and I found them...... "


27 Years of Lazarian Delights
Exploration on a newly discovered system of planets

This work is the result of fantastical worldbuilding; artifacts from another solar system collected by an ambitious explorer who pursues a hedonistic thirst for novelty in a metaphorical journey of discovery, scientific observation, and ethnography.

“27 Years of Lazarian Delights” is a brief journey into an obsessive mind. From acid lakes to fiery planes, from suicide ceremonies to a cipher for a script, this explorer records it all with the precise eye of a scientist unwrapping the logic of a new system. In doing so, he takes the language of scientific knowledge and bends it to a world of fiction and speculation, reapplying these tools to fanciful and radical ends. The world the explorer captures is fantastical, but in its essence it is a project in seeing, pushing us Earthlings to re-imagine life with eyes anew.”