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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. No library descriptions found. |
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Good thing I was a blank slate (have not read The Martian or seen the movie, have not read Artemis either); but after finishing this book – doesn’t look like I missed much.
So, the Sun is being engulfed by a space bacterium and the protagonist Ryland Grace – is tasked with saving Earth. About Grace, he has a resume that possibly rivals Jesus! He is a single middle-aged schoolteacher / interstellar communication expert / astrophysicist / engineering genius / microbiologist ...list goes on. I lost count of the miracles this guy pulls with his “back of the napkin math “. Cannot forget about Rocky; the spider like alien who befriends Grace and together they take down the space fungi!
The books start of well but once we are in the vacuum of space, the author gets stuck in a rut; there’s just a whole lot of science experimentation with Grace’s unassuming back of the napkin math and Rocky’s engineering – and voila they miraculously evert being annihilated for the umpteenth time.
The ending is so pretentious – I felt there was lot of potential to take a deeper philosophical turn which the author squandered and rather opted for sugar coated fluff; guess he was hoping for another Hollywood movie out of this, because who doesn’t like the warm fuzzy feeling of closure. (