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*rises from the depths*
Mar. 27th, 2024 11:02 pmI haven't been around much lately and I kinda fell off a comment-answering cliff; SORRY. In the meantime, I perhaps ill-advisedly signed up for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fluffityfluffexchange (signups close Apr 2) because of reasons, in spite of barely having had time to look at my h/c-ex assignment. I'm sure the fandom I signed up with will be a complete shock to everyone. (I reserve the right to delete my signup if I change my mind, but I do expect to have more free time and free mental space in April ... I hope.)
In other news, I read a book for fun this week, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and it is *adorable*. I know some people around here don't like his books (there is no need to comment just to tell me this) and if you already hate his writing, you won't like this book because he has a very distinctive style and this book is very much in that style.
But it was exactly what I wanted: optimistic problem-solving near-future hard SF with a "working together and making friends and being our best selves" theme. I had completely mis-osmosed what it was about; I somehow thought it was about a moon or Mars colony - possibly thinking of one of his other books.
It is very much not about that.
It is about an astronaut who wakes up on a spaceship, surrounded by dead crewmates, with total amnesia and no idea why he's here, what he's supposed to do, or even what solar system he's in, so he has to piece it together from clues and then figure out how to do the thing he only vaguely knows he has to do. On top of that, he might not be alone after all.
( Spoilers for the first third or so of the book, i.e. the 'why he's there' part and the setup for the main plot )
fluffityfluffexchange (signups close Apr 2) because of reasons, in spite of barely having had time to look at my h/c-ex assignment. I'm sure the fandom I signed up with will be a complete shock to everyone. (I reserve the right to delete my signup if I change my mind, but I do expect to have more free time and free mental space in April ... I hope.)In other news, I read a book for fun this week, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and it is *adorable*. I know some people around here don't like his books (there is no need to comment just to tell me this) and if you already hate his writing, you won't like this book because he has a very distinctive style and this book is very much in that style.
But it was exactly what I wanted: optimistic problem-solving near-future hard SF with a "working together and making friends and being our best selves" theme. I had completely mis-osmosed what it was about; I somehow thought it was about a moon or Mars colony - possibly thinking of one of his other books.
It is very much not about that.
It is about an astronaut who wakes up on a spaceship, surrounded by dead crewmates, with total amnesia and no idea why he's here, what he's supposed to do, or even what solar system he's in, so he has to piece it together from clues and then figure out how to do the thing he only vaguely knows he has to do. On top of that, he might not be alone after all.
( Spoilers for the first third or so of the book, i.e. the 'why he's there' part and the setup for the main plot )