Adrift on the Sea of RainsIan Sales
Adrift on the Sea of Rains
by Ian Sales
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on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?” ↗For a more realistic depiction, along both Weir's suggestions (opaque explanations) and yours ("workers who do a job that is pretty much pre-determined"), I'd suggest Ian Sales's Adrift on the Sea of Rains which features a fictional commander stranded on a late-Cold-War moon base. Lots of jargon, no infodumps, no context for the reader (towards good literary effect). In the grey gunpowder dust, he stands…
on “A martian’s review of The Martian (2015)” ↗