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Goldilocks
by L.R. Lam
The first couple of chapters didn't really grab me, but I'm glad I kept reading because it picked up, and I stayed up a little too late finishing it. This was a suspenseful and thoughtful story of five women astronauts who heist a spaceship to make the first trip to a planet out of our solar system.
They are trying to create a possible future for a climate-change-ravaged Earth which, let's be honest, felt like a grimly possible future from where I sit reading it in California September 2020. (The epidemics, the wildfires, the filter masks, the sea walls... Yeah, we're on the way there.)
I liked the technical problem-solving way more than in The Martian (which was just way too technical for me). I wasn't totally convinced by the villain's grand evil plan - it seemed so unlikely to work - but I was really intrigued by how the others dealt with this threat. I wished instead of focusing on stopping the villain there could have been more nuanced debate over the ethics of how to make things different on the potential new colony.
Loved the under-the-radar way the love story snuck in.
They are trying to create a possible future for a climate-change-ravaged Earth which, let's be honest, felt like a grimly possible future from where I sit reading it in California September 2020. (The epidemics, the wildfires, the filter masks, the sea walls... Yeah, we're on the way there.)
I liked the technical problem-solving way more than in The Martian (which was just way too technical for me). I wasn't totally convinced by the villain's grand evil plan - it seemed so unlikely to work - but I was really intrigued by how the others dealt with this threat. I wished instead of focusing on stopping the villain there could have been more nuanced debate over the ethics of how to make things different on the potential new colony.
Loved the under-the-radar way the love story snuck in.