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A review by libbyhenderson
Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier
5.0
"Singer Distance" by Ethan Chatagnier - a slow start, but picked up nicely. My personal connection: When I was teaching 5th grade, one of my favorite prompts to give my students was speculative fiction. "Write a story in which the earth has 2 suns and 2 moons instead of one" for example. This story seems to answer the prompt - "write about the 1960s with all the true scientific discoveries such as the moon landing, etc. but with an added fictional history of Earth having contact with humanoids on Mars."
Realistic characters with eccentricities, mental illness, and love, along with space travel and exploration, and basic science, science, science. Science written like beautiful prose or poetry. Physics, technical yet understandable. Astronomy, huge in scope, yet down-to-earth. Classic connections between science, math, and music - made to feel new and expansive. This story is truly speculative fiction and science fiction combined. It grew on me from the first few chapters (where I almost DNF the whole thing) to the last chapters where I couldn't put the book down and ended up as only my second 5-star novel of 2023.
Realistic characters with eccentricities, mental illness, and love, along with space travel and exploration, and basic science, science, science. Science written like beautiful prose or poetry. Physics, technical yet understandable. Astronomy, huge in scope, yet down-to-earth. Classic connections between science, math, and music - made to feel new and expansive. This story is truly speculative fiction and science fiction combined. It grew on me from the first few chapters (where I almost DNF the whole thing) to the last chapters where I couldn't put the book down and ended up as only my second 5-star novel of 2023.