AMAZE, AMAZE, AMAZE, as Rocky might say. The third book by The Martian author, Andy Weir, is a enthralling combination of hard science (but not too hard for the math challenged), plausible solutions to complex problems, dramatic plot turns, and a compassionate exploration of interspecies friendship. Waking up from a coma and finding himself alone in a spaceship, Ryland Grace doesn’t know who he is, much less how he got there. As his mind clears and memory returns, he begins to grasp the situation, realizing that his mission is no less than the saving of the Earth, whose sun is being slowly dimmed by an interstellar plague. And it’s not just our sun and home planet, but those of other nearby systems. His ship’s location is light-years away from Earth in the one area that seems to be clear of this fast-replicating plague, and Grace is not the only sentient being out there trying to save a world. Reminiscent of the best of Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury and other classic sci-fi authors -- I could not put it down. 478 pp.
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