Currently reading “Artemis” by Andy Weir. I’m enjoying it a lot more than I did “Hail Mary” which I thought was awful.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
38 points (97.5% liked)
Books
4588 readers
68 users here now
A community for all things related to Books.
Rules
- Be Nice
Official Bingo Posts:
Related Communities
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I liked Hail Mary more than Artemis, but I loved them both.
Why do you think Hail Mary was awful?
Spoilers:
I have a difficult time believing that they didn’t have enough backup plans to the point that they had to send a school teacher to save the world. I also couldn’t believe that someone with a doctorate would be teaching junior high (we don’t pay teachers enough in the US). I also didn’t care for the story stopping every few pages so that the author could do a math proof to pretend that the protagonist was some kind of genius (who just so happens to have the skills to reprogram a rocket ship trajectory???). And the endless “something else went wrong only I can fix!” every fifty pages got really tired. Oh and whatever you do, don’t send any of the probes back to earth until the last minute. Because instead of keeping Earth informed and updated as you learn things that might save them, you’re going to need all those probes for a plot point later.
Artemis was fun, but had a lousy ending. It’ll make a good tv series some day if they change up that part of the story.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Seven days in June. Decided to read it after seeing this video.
Not my usual read, bit gave it a try. Around 20% in and liking it
I’ve been listening to the bobiverse, by Dennis Taylor. I like the series about an ordinary guy who just happens to later be copied a few thousand times. ( hard science fiction)
The latest book was released this year, and while it can hold its own, I like the earlier books better. And the first book is one of my favorites