Mimeograph is a strange and intriguing sci-fi horror story, easily readable in one sitting. The cover art has a minimalist, sort of SCP vibe, which is really fitting. It's set in a world where organic 3d printers have subsumed everything - printing and recycling everything from food to the bus-of-the day to whatever it *knows* you need. The details and how things collapse are done very well. I'm definitely interested in reading more from this press, which seems to specialize in small print runs of strange fiction, and this author if she publishes anything else in English!

A short and wonderful sci fi story! I was in love with the cover and I'm sort of bumed it's not a physical arc, that wouldn't happen because they are going to be a signed and numbered limited release which looks really cool! It fits the story so well and sets the mood.

Mimeograph is perfect for fans of Annihilation and weird fiction. The story follows Talia, a scientist who works with “Mimes” — this world’s equivalent of 3D printers that can produce anything you ask for. Sometimes your Mime will know what you need even before you do, and when one prints something indescribable, reality starts to break down.

I read this story in one sitting, so if you’re looking for a quick sci-fi read, Mimeograph is a great pick! The author’s writing style flows well and is descriptive without giving away too much detail. I would love to read more from this author and hope that someday Mimeograph will be published in print so I can add it to my short story collection.

Mimeograph is a captivating novella that manages to keep your attention for each of its small pagecount.

It's like the author was the all-seeing mist and could read the exact fears and criticisms about current day and age events straight from the mind of the people. It's a stark, intimidating description of what it feels like to see the developments of today brought to you in a captivating and enjoyable to follow narrative.
It completely transports its reader into this small area of Stockholm, only for you to realise you're not there when you reach the end.

Stellarly done, 5 stars.

Mimeograph - a machine used to 3D print everything in people’s lives (clothes, food, drinks, furniture, tools, vehicles, you name it).
The story grabbed me by the neck and never let go of me until I finished it. It blew my mind, it broke it. I absolutely loved it! If you’re a fan of weird SF, machines going sentient or rogue, futuristic settings and a constant suspense, this ticks all the boxes. The theme is so intense, tackling existence and our connection to the universe. It’s creepy, it’s sad, it’s joyful, I couldn’t decide.

Talia is a researcher who dedicated her life to her passion for building and engineering things. When a mimeograph printed a strange looking shower rod for a woman, people instantly catalogued it as a bug, a mistake, and they started looking into the machine to find the defect. However, two years after the incident which most people brushed off eventually as a funny thing that happened, that woman dodged her death in the shower when she slipped and the bizarre shape of the shower rod actually saved her. It was then when scientists started to question whether the machine’s product was indeed a mistake or a brilliant prediction.

For such a short story, it surely makes you see the world they live in quite clearly. The descriptions of this future world which the Mimes create for humans is somewhat dystopian and utopian at the same time. The Mimes seem to have a mind of their own, predicting, anticipating their users’ needs before they even voice them out, before they even know they want them. And they become somehow the architects of a brand new world by the end of this book. This is the type of story that I need to read several times and discover more and more.

It’s downright eerie, the horror aspect is the uncertainty, the fear of losing oneself, the fear of ceasing to exist, of not knowing, of not understanding. It’s about that claustrophobic feeling of giving up and accepting your new reality, of surrendering to something you don’t understand.

For me it was very easy to connect with Talia, because she’s that type of engineer that most of us working in the IT industry relate to, the introvert, yet snarky if approached, the efficient type yet incapable of stopping that desire to connect with someone (maybe just one person). The tension between her and her intern is fun to read in the beginning, a welcomed distraction from the suspense, but instantly becomes a mandatory connection for her to cling to her reality when everything seems to fall apart and she loses herself. I could feel her anxiety through the whole ordeal.

Everything starts to drift into a suffocating, spiralling reality when one Mime in their lab spews out the most peculiar object ever seen by humans. The scientists move around the black mass trying to discern what it means, what it is, what is made of. I’m not going to lie, the way they stared at the object and how that thing sat there in the lab, menacingly doing absolutely nothing, it made me think of the SCP video games. They argue whether it’s a black sphere that can be touched and picked up, or a black hole. If it’s matter or antimatter. But Talia knows it’s something else entirely. What follows next is utterly esoteric. And I’m a sucker for dreamlike, esoteric, existentialist sci-fi stories.

Definitely want to buy a hard copy to re-read it and see what other messages I can unveil in this gem.

Many, many thanks to Eira A. Ekre, Li'l Factory, and NetGalley for the ARC. This is a voluntary review, reflecting solely my opinion.