By Scott Bailey © 2026
Against the backdrop of the stars
In floats
Frozen
Preserved
A book
One day
Alien eyes might find it
Decode it
Understand it
Learn about the world
That discarded such things
And why it died
In response to malformed_poetry’s poem
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Ah, I see it’s a Doctor Who novel. Will seek it out.
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Haha. Outside of the interesting concept of the titular book, it was rather dull and all I can recall is a sequence in which one of the main characters, who is British-Indian has an electronically induced interrogation that turns into a Bollywood musical.
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Sci-Fi. The titular book is a sort of directory for stranded space/time travellers. They write down their name and spacio-temporal co-ordinates down in it, and wait for someone in the future to find their entry and come rescue them.
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I will check that out.
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It’s long out of print now
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Oh, more excuses to trawl the second hand bookshops then
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The image reminds me of the cover of Paul Ebbs “The Book of the Still.”
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Not heard of that. What genre is it? I would guess horror?
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