Zack Lightman is busy daydreaming in class when a spaceship appears outside the window. It is a spaceship that looks exactly like the ones in his favourite video game. Is he losing his mind or is something else at play here? Are aliens really making contact with us? And what does his long-dead father have to do with it all? Armada is Ernest Cline’s second book after Ready Player One, the critically acclaimed novel that’s currently being made into a film. Like in RPO, Cline […]
Lost in translation?
Cixin Liu’s ”The Three-Body Problem” was not an easy book to get through. Set in China, partly during the Cultural Revolution and partly in modern times, it tells the tale of a couple of scientists that have to deal with a mysterious scientific and societal problem. At the center of it lies a VR game that takes place on another planet. In a not-particularly-twisty twist, all is not what it seems… I try to read books in the language they were written in (as much […]
Unreliable narrator is unreliable. Or is she?
The titular girl on the train is Rachel, an alcoholic, unemployed divorcee who commutes into London every day because she can’t admit to her flatmate that she lost her job. The train takes her past her old neighbourhood, where her ex-husband now lives with his current wife and their baby daughter. In the same neighbourhood lives another couple, whose lives Rachel fantasizes about. She makes up names and stories about them and how happy they are together. Until something goes wrong, and Rachel thinks she […]
It’s about Christian aliens. Or long distance relationships. I’m not sure.
Peter is a pastor with a troubled past. He is married to Bea. When we’re introduced to them, they’re on their way to the airport. Peter is about to embark on a mission to another planet, where he is expected to bring the word of God to the natives. If you thought the two halves of a couple living in two different cities was tough on a relationship, try living on two different planets. Peter embraces his mission, while Bea struggles back at home. This […]
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