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seveneves? Klara and the Sun?
For literary fiction, I loved Naipaul’s A Bend In the River, although it gets a bit disturbing at the end. Beautifully written about the experience of race/nationality and colonialism, Indians et al in Africa. Not woke, not an intellectual lift.
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The Martian, followed by Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson. So good.
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- Curated in 5 books to read this summer (2016)
I hadn’t read any science fiction for a decade when a friend recommended this novel. I’m glad she did. The plot gets going in the first sentence, when the moon blows up. People figure out that in two years a cataclysmic meteor shower will wipe out all life on Earth, so the world unites on a plan to keep humanity going by launching as many spacecraft as possible into orbit. You might lose patience with all the information you’ll get about space flight—Stephenson, who lives in Seattle, has clearly done his research—but I loved the technical details. Seveneves inspired me to rekindle my sci-fi habit.