My brain spent all the time between when I got up to use the facilities and when the alarm went off going, “Shouldn’t the alarm have gone off by now? What if you missed it? You’ll be in so much trouble!”. Of course it went off exactly on time and I did not miss it, but by that time it was too late to get the sleep back.

Read: War From A Distant Sun (Anthony James): Missiles in space with gratuitous technobabble and extremely uninteresting aliens.

Read: War of the Maps (Paul McAuley): A lawman determined to get his criminal no matter what gods and ghosts interfere, among reconstructed humans on a megastructure in the far far future. Humans are still pretty terrible.

Words: Check, kinda.