plot? does it have one? DIdn't have a clue what was supposed to be going on here, or what the rules of the universe were.

Some woman has sex and doesn't die, but meets some people who want to have sex, and do die - infected by a random word virus that turns their brains to milk? They all run away. And die. Even the robot AI stuff who one would have thought couldn't catch viruses.

utter claptrap. Go read Babel 17 it's the same idea, but 30 years earlier much better written, and it makes sense. ( )

“Cosmic” and “intense” are just two of the words that come to mind after reading Paul Jessup’s Open Your Eyes. Wasting absolutely no time, the story opens with a woman named Ekhi and her lover, a star about to go supernova in the last gasp of their last union, and it goes at warp speed from there. Jessup immediately sets the scene for a story that you will not want to put down.

The style is prose that, unlike much of contemporary science fiction, is intelligent and visually dynamic. I could see the bones of the space ship, see the butterflies in the cage that made up half of Mari’s face, and feel the crackling skin of the centuries old captain Itsasu. Each character has his or her own motivations for being on the scavenger ship. If Ekhi’s case, she was rescued after her lover went super nova, but there was one thing none of them suspected, that the Heart of the ship had its own plans. Beware a space ship that has a mind of its own. Read More ( )