Responding to a reader request, redditors have suggested some deep-sea horror novels for all your scary summer needs, so be sure to pack one of the nine books below for your next boating outing. And I wanted to highlight women authors for my favorites list, as much as I love books like The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts or The Expanse series by James SA Corey or The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi or Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee or An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.Īrranged in no particular order because I’m feeling rather chaotic today.Even if summer seems like the most inappropriate time to read horror novels, fans of scary books know that there's no bad time to send chills down your own spin. While many other science fiction/sciencey books are high up there, I wanted to pick some where space heavily featured, or where space ships were predominant as more than just a setting (see: Vorkosigan Saga) or medium through which to be transported (see: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley). Here are twelve science fiction books set in space-six I read and loved, and six on my TBR! Six I Loved

Space is the place to let your imagination soar. This was alongside my dreams of becoming a large animal veterinarian, and it was only when I realized just how bad my eyesight was and how decidedly average I am that space exploration was off the cards for me in any physical sense. I gave presentations on space and NASA as much as I could. I knew the planets, the moons, I learned as much as I could and devoured everything in my Handy Space Exploration Book (this was uh, pre-ubiquitous wi-fi). Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut-probably like a lot of other kids. The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

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