What Fiction are you reading this week, January 30, 2022?

[Jeebo]

37. "Project Hail Mary" is the best book I read last year.

And one of the best science fiction novels I've ever read. So much science fiction is about conflict between humans and extraterrestrials, and I get so tired of it, as much as I love science fiction. Oh, are they going to start getting suspicious about each other, again, and scheming against each other, shooting at each other, trying to hurt each other and kill each other? Why can't humans and extraterrestrials ever be each other's friends, help each other out, scratch each other's back, give each other a helping hand? Those kinds of positive, uplifting stories about the noble elements of each species' character is rare. Robert L. Forward wrote science fiction with that optimistic theme, and Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" also is that kind of novel. It is wonderful, and it is staying with me several months after I read it, and already I am thinking about reading it again. I always know, when I read one that I keep thinking about for weeks and even months after I finish it, that I have read a true gem.

-- Ron