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Yume Kitasei: The Deep Sky (EBook, 2023, Flatiron Books)

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …

Definitely a debut novel; feels sort of like a handbasket full of plots, mostly strung together

Feels like the missing volume in the middle of SEVENEVES, though, in a lot of ways that Stephenson could learn from (but won't)

finished reading Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #3)

T. Kingfisher: Paladin's Hope (Hardcover, 2021, Argyll Productions)

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …

Another sweet romance book about broken paladins — this one gay. Full of darkly funny T. Kingfisher gnole humor that is very much reminiscent of DIGGER.

Like the other (straight) romances in this series, hot and sweet.

finished reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey: Orbital (EBook, 2023, Grove Atlantic)

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …

This is not a novel.

It's much closer to a series of essays about personal, global, and transcendental experience, framed around six people in the ISS.

Much more like a Sagan essay suite or How Far The Light Reaches.