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Writing hard science fiction that doesn't get lost in the science takes a balancing act. Andy Weir does an incredible job of that in Project Hail Mary. He also has moments of pure humor as well as an underlying mystery outside of the immediate problem at hand, which added a great amount of emotional impact. Especially in a moment diluted in the filmâthat despite having previously been a coward, he made the decision to risk his life/future in another hail Mary attempt to help his 100% doomed friend.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance missionâand if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesnât know that. He canât even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that heâs been asleep for a very, very long time. And heâs just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling throughâŚ
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa storiesâall reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueâŚ
The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series.Â
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For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark.
I am an astronomer and educator (Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Colorado), and Iâve now been teaching about global warming for more than 40 years (in courses on astronomy, astrobiology, and mathematics). While itâs frustrating to see how little progress weâve made in combatting the ongoing warming during this time, my background as an astronomer gives me a âcosmic perspectiveâ that reminds me that decades are not really so long, and that we still have time to act and to build a âpost-global warming future.â I hope my work can help inspire all of us to act while we still can for the benefit of all.
This is a science fiction book and hence might seem an odd choice for a list of books about global warming.
However, this book does a great job describing what might happen in coming decades if we donât take rapid action on climate change, so I think it can help inspire people to make sure that we do indeed act soon. I also loved the way the book shows how exploration of space can be part of the long-term solution to climate change, something that I also deeply believe in.Â
In New York Times best-selling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroidâkicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance.
When unforeseen circumstances during an innovativeâand unsanctionedâcommercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessaryâŚ
AcClaim is a dark, high-society romance about Beatrix Winslow-Hale, a successful romance author who believes desire can be negotiated and controlledâuntil enigmatic billionaire Dorian Wolker crosses the line between consensual surrender and violation. Publicly humiliated and emotionally shattered, Beatrix turns to Manon de Rochemaure, her fiercely loyal best friend andâŚ
âFor centuries, the ivory towers of academia have echoed this sentiment of multitudinous ends and limited means. In this supremely contrarian book, Tupy and Pooley overturn the tables in the temple of conventional thinking. They deploy rigorous and original data and analysis to proclaim a gospel of abundance. Economicsâand ultimately, politicsâwill be enduringly transformed.â âGeorge Gilder, author of Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued, âThe world's rapidly growing population isâŚ