Artemis

If you’re into Science Fiction: (Note: I listed to these all via the Audible audiobooks, they were all very well narrated and I’d highly recommend listening this way.) #1: The Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This is amazingly fascinating from beginning to end, if you like speculative evolution zenofiction space operas, you’re in for a real treat. I feel like these books were written for me. I went the audiobook route and chugged through each (roughly 600 page) book, neglecting focus to almost anything else in my life. I would be playing Tetris on my phone (via the Tappy app) while listening at 1.1x speed, which is the perfect amount of mental stimulation to have massive amounts of time go by without noticing. #2: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I don’t want to spoil too much, but this is a must-read for engineer-brain nerds like me that yearn to understand complex systems recreationally. Enough said. Mandatory. I read Artemis by Andy Weir afterwards and enjoyed it too, but Hail Mary is my fave. #3: The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.…

I just started The Hobbit a couple days ago. For the last 3-4 months I've been checking out library books on the Kindle and reading as a bedtime ritual to help get me to sleep. It's been working pretty well, I rarely lay there unable to go to sleep. I just finished Devolution by Max Brooks, it was good but not really in my wheelhouse. I didn't realize when I started reading it, but he also did World War Z, which I felt the same way about, and also recently finished reading Before that I finished Artemis by Andy Weir, good but not great. Read because I had recently finished The Martian and absolutely loved it.

> I was introduced to sci-fi last year and pretty much stuck to it throughout 2018. If you're looking for additional science fiction suggestions: 1. American War by Omar El Akkad 2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 3. Artemis by Andy Weir 4. Daemon by Daniel Suarez 5. Old Man's War by John Scalzi 6. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 7. Red Rising series by Pierce Brown