Book club selection per Lon, session held March 22.
Entertaining yes.
I generally struggle to find much value in science fiction but liked this well enough.
Kind of fun to muse about what alien life might be like - common building block roots? Evolution dictated by planet’s environment? This book shows a version where the aliens are similar to humans (other than what the environment required). This part was interesting to me.
Otherwise so much like the Martian - which isn’t a terrible thing - sciency problems keep cropping up, sciency solutions are come up by our hero, no matter what. Rocky as an ongoing “deus ex machina” - plot device to surmount the insurmountable.
The “save the planet” rhetoric got tiresome. Not plausible that the various nations would work together like this.
I rather liked the ending. Made sense that he would settle there, didn’t see a teaching job coming.
Kind of surprised at the overt Roman Catholicism with the “Hail Mary” name, I thought that was out of fashion.
Even better - perhaps my favorite touch - the archangel Gabriel’s full greeting is “Hail Mary full of grace” - think of the hero’s name.
Quick read, just fine. Movie coming out.
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