Six Degrees of SFnal Separation

I saw this on A Dance with Books blog. The idea is to pick a sci-fi book as a starting point and link it to six other books to form a chain/list. The link, between each book, can be anything you want. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the ones next to them in the chain.

this is my chain, or list:

• The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey
  • quote: … haikus, unassuming and light on their feet.
  • Kindle Edition, 57 pages
  • a favorite sci-fi short story based on the question, “Are our lives just someone else’s imagination?”

• This Long Vigil by Rhett C. Bruno
  • quote: There was less than one day until my eyes would never open again.
  • Kindle Edition, 20 pages
  • An evocative short story about space travel and how not everyone is meant to live the life they were born into. Like The Plagiarist, This Long Vigil packs an over-sized emotional wallop when compared to it’s length.

• The Last Astronaut by Chris Dietzel
  • quote: The same day Bob died, I applied to go out into space.
  • Kindle Edition, 56 pages
  • Space travel and devastating love story set during the extinction of humanity.

• The Dog by Amy Cross
  • quote: Something I haven’t heard for many, many years. Human voices.
  • Kindle Edition, 243 pages
  • An apocalyptic retelling of Old Yeller. A young man and his dog, Harry, during the ZA (zombie apocalypse). This particular Z virus affects only humans.

• The Dean Machine by Dylan Lee Peters
  • quote: His love was not innocent; it was overflowing with purpose.
  • Kindle Edition, 338 pages
  • A little red dog, named Dean, saves the future of a dystopian yellow world.

• The Man Who Watched the World End by Chris Dietzel
  • quote: Nature, it seems, is very serious about reclaiming everything man took from it.
  • Kindle Edition, 259 pages
  • The title says it all: mankind has not reproduced a functional human being in about 80 years. Animals, cats and dogs included, now do what comes naturally to them, they travel in packs.