Beacon 23
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Blurb
This TwinPack includes Hugh Howey's first Lightspeed Magazine story, DEEP BLOOD KETTLE, as well as his short story SECOND SUICIDE.
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Dust (The Silo Trilogy)
Landline
Like the seed, it uses a speculative gimmick—a phone into the past—to probe isolation and connection, but warmer and romance-centered rather than bleak sci-fi.
Attachments
Shares the seed's theme of a lonely watcher observing others' lives from a post, though here it's office email and a gentle slow-burn instead of deep space.
Bare necessity
Trades speculative solitude for comic rock-bottom reinvention; pick it when you want humor, romance and heat instead of cold, quiet science fiction.
Happiness for beginners
Also about starting over after life falls apart, but small-town, hopeful and low-heat rather than isolated and speculative.