Published: Thu 01 May 2014
By C. Titus Brown
In personal .
tags: reading scifi
I recently finished two books that really stood out in my memory of
recent reading. Lighter fare than I have recommended in the past, but
more representative of what I read day to day :)
The first book, The Martian ,
is a near-future book about an astronaut who wakes up on Mars, having
been left for dead by his fellow astronauts. He must figure out how
to survive on what they left behind for long enough to be rescued.
The book is humorous and technical in equal measures, and
I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down. I read it in one (long) night.
Absolutely fantastic.
The second book, Red Rising ,
is a distant-future book about a boy who is fighting a very
hierarchical and very unjust society. The boy goes undercover, so to
speak, to become a member of the ruling class. The cover mentions
Ender and Katniss Everdeen, and I thought it was reminiscent of those
books, but with its own take. I didn't quite read it in one go -- I
was reading it while we were driving up to Montreal for PyCon 2014 --
but I couldn't stop thinking about it until I _had_ finished it, which
is rare.
So, both are highly recommended!
--titus
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