Jacob Szymanski

And he's just like, he references that screen constantly to say like, okay, he just said something and included like C, F sharp and D or something like that.

Yeah.

Which is kind of funny because eventually he stops using the computer because it says that he can start to recognize words just naturally, just without the computer.

Which kind of means that Ryland Grace has perfect pitch, but the book doesn't say so directly.

There's no way he could do what he did without having perfect pitch, which if you don't know, it means you can identify pitches without any reference tone, which is very rare.

It's a genetic thing.

You cannot develop it.

You can develop good relative pitch

But perfect pitch, you're born with it.

It's very rare.

It looks like Rylan Grace is one of those people.

We haven't even gotten to the plot.

Which, I mean, this book gets off to a fantastic start because it introduces the concept of the astrophages.

Yes.

Right off the bat.

And that got my attention.

What are astrophages?

The book is told in the present time on the spaceship where Ryland is completely alone, at least for a little while.

And interspersed with that is a bunch of flashbacks that kind of lead to...

Putting together why Ryland is on the spaceship in the first place.