Tag: Accelerated Aggression

Backstories: "Accelerated Aggression" (2022)

Plant: Nepenthes specularis x tenuis BE-3884 (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Our immediate galactic cluster produces a surprising number of so-called “deathworlds”: planets whose biota accept any kind of intrusion only after the application of overwhelming force. A few are hive minds who use their animal and plant analogues as surrogates for other organisms’ immune systems. Others are so nutrient-starved that to pass up relatively…