How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu · first published 2022
100% recommend
Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having faile
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Here are some I've read recently that I can highly recommend: Fiction: - How High We Go in the Dark, a deeply moving science fiction story about loss - https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark-sequ... - Severance (no relation to the TV show), which works as a pretty good double bill…
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗…Burn Line" by Paul MacAuley. "Eversion" by Alastair Reynolds. "The Thousand Earths" by Stephen Baxter. (Who, surprisingly, has never won a Hugo. This fact alone reflects very poorly on the Hugos.) "How High We Go in the Dark" by Sequoia Nagamatsu. I feel that all of these books were better than any of the nominated ones. I like Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed Trilogy (thus far) too, but only one of them was published in 2022 and…
on “2023 Hugo Awards” ↗