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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.“Until the day humanity falls.”
In the year 2020, Earth’s magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases.
In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.
An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.
But An Zhe’s mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng’s eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds…
Silver Award winner at the 12th Chinese Nebula Awards for Chinese Science Fiction.
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One entry per lineXiao Mogu
เจ้าเห็ดน้อย
小蘑菇
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"I have only known you for three months but this is my lifetime."
"He is the one who judges me."
100% RECOMMENDED. This novel will make you cry, make you laugh, make you ponder on the fleetingness and fragility of life, and so much more! The Little Mushroom takes us along on his trip to learn about what it sometimes mean to be human. The MC is a little mushroom who is ignorant of the world but is NOT s*upid. Naive yes, because he's only been human for a very short while, but he learns and adapts very fast. He feels that he himself is a bystander, spectating the struggle of humans, without realizing that he himself is sometimes very much more human than some humans. He considers himself apathetic to their despair, not realizing that his gentleness and sadness is making him anything but apathetic. His feelings for the ML fluctuates between terror, more terror, awe, irritation, empathy, concern and gradual love, which is wonderful to read about. And the ML is one of the most well fleshed out ML I've seen. He's strong yes, but unlike most MLs in other novels who are depicted as young with mindblowing achievements but tosses all their values aside for their One True Love, this ML holds steadfast to his faith and ideologies despite it meaning he may have to destroy the person he's come to love. But at the same time, he's not irrationally blinded by it, and understands himself all too well without having too many inner struggles, which to me, showcased how truly strong he is. As a Judge with the authority to kill on sight seemingly without rhyme or reason, this strength is what keeps him sane when everyone else including other Judges consistently question if their decisions to kill were correct, always knowing they may have inadvertently mu*dered an innocent. It also raises some very interesting questions along the way about how far one would be willing to go to preserve humanity, and what even is their definition of humanity. What I like best about this novel is despite it being post apocalyptic in nature, it chooses to highlight the way humans still retain their kindness and generosity instead of devolving into the more common selfishness brought about by survival necessities. There is grief, there is despair, but there is also hope. Chapter count wise, it may seem comparatively short, but is is so packed with content that it doesn't feel rushed ot lacking at all. But I do wish there were more Extras as I still miss this pair very much even after the story has ended.
saveddestroyed all of humanity. MC in this novel is one of the most unique MC I have read. He composed and calm by nature... more>>An apacolypse actually (reasonably) supported by science and mindblowing hypotheses?? No cringy meteor and zombie explanation? We stan. I haven't read much apacolypse settings, but from what I've read, apacolypse themes is tr*sh. Little mushroom is like gold in a tr*shcan. Few authors can actually handle an apacolypse setting, and most endings get shitty. Little mushroom on the other hand just keeps getting better. I was prepared for a sh*t ending that never came. I do miss some more depth of the story itself. The storytelling is like done 99% well, and because of the missing 1% I lack the rush of adreline when new discoveries about the world were made, and it felt more as if I was reading a historical report (I mean, that would prob make me more excited). All the info were interesting af, but I just reallly miss the mindblown feeling. Enjoyment 4 stars, but the rest was just executed so well I have to ignore my subjective enjoyment and give 5 stars. I agree with other reviewers saying that the book is heavy with lots of moral questions, but it's truly not that angsty and tragic. Probably because the MC has yet to fully associate with human emotions and the concept of loss. Also, the morality issues aren't very heavy, but instead pretty shallow. But there isn't anything wrong with that. The author choose that way of writing, and did a good job with that. Also, with shallow I don't mean shallow as in elementary-school cringiness, but just that the questions are pretty straightforward. The moral conflict about having the authority to kill at will that many reviewers talk about, isn't worked out well. The author made the ML, who has that authority, too perfect without explanation (so the ML is 100% accurate in spotting cantagious people). Instead of having a "moral conflict", you'll just side with the ML as reader. I'd rather say it's a stance (to give someone absolute authority in times of chaos) that the writer takes instead of a moral conflict she delivers to us. To see it as a moral issue, the reader has to use more brains (to put themselves in the situation blah blah) than they should. I also want to point out that the mushroom MC IS s*upid while also naive. Not s*upid in the annoying sense though, but in the clumsy-in-light-moments sense. He still has enough intellegence to keep up with big discoveries, but lacks some common sense sometimes. That, I repeat, isn't annoying at all, coming from someone who detests dense characters. Another thing is how the MC isn't able to understand everything about the moral questions that arise. That's really the job of the reader. But then there'll be this conflict while following the MC through the book: 1) you concentrate on the MC's storyline since he's a storyline heavy character 2) you need to put yourself into the place of the MC and use your own brain to think. Those two don't rly work well together. Either remove the storyline of the MC and truly make him a spectator, or make the MC question the things the reader should question. But that's just something small.
1. Read the synopsis and get duped. 2. Don't love any side character's as much as possible. 3. Prepare 3 boxes of Kleenex/ large towel/ or your blankie will do 4. Buy a mushroom spore and name it An Zhe 5. Be sad because you're single AF while the little mushroom has Lu Feng. 6. SMILE BECAUSE IT'S A HAPPY ENDING!!!!!!!!!!!