Jacob Szymanski

I think it was, yeah.

It was an Audible original, but it is available on CELA here in Canada.

This, I mean, Andy Rear's work is very much in the hard science fiction category as opposed to soft science.

If you're not aware, that just means it's meant to emulate real science.

It's meant to be more realistic.

Whereas soft science, you're not really meant to understand how these pieces of technology work.

Like a warp drive, you're not going to get an explanation of how that works, right?

A lightsaber, what the hell is a lightsaber?

It doesn't really matter.

That's kind of the point.

But in hard science, the science kind of matters.

It becomes part of the plot.

And this book is all about how things actually work.

Now, that doesn't mean that everything here is perfectly realistic.

I've looked into this, the legitimacy of an astrophage of a single cell organism that exists in the vacuum of space and consumes the sun, well, consumes stars.

not and I think it survives on like electromagnetism or something like that it's no it's not very realistic generally speaking people think it's not very realistic but it's presented as something that could be legitimate and it seems logically consistent within the book it's not that's the important thing it's not yeah

Science fiction has always been about asking what ifs.

What if humans were no longer as intelligent as the computers that they created?

What if humans expanded to every celestial body in the solar system?

What would happen if people lived on asteroids?