Annihilation is one of my favorite books. The way I sucks you into the weird, mysterious world is amazing. I didn’t like the other two in the trilogy quite as much but still enjoyed them. Apparently he is working on a fourth book! I also loved Borne, which has a completely different vibe. The audiobook was great because of the voice for Borne.
I ended up not finishing the Martian chronicles for whatever reason, but I agree they’re a delight. It’s funny to read about old ideas of space travel, like that a spaceship would land somewhere and have no idea what was there (and not predicting that we’d have the whole planet mapped by probes long before anyone lands.) It makes sense though, that’s what it was like for the old explorers. I’m reading books about polar expedition from the 1800s and they used to think there was was a nice, moderate climate sea over the North Pole if they just got past the ring of ice around it. And didn’t find out differently until someone went there.
Annihilation is one of my favorite books. The way I sucks you into the weird, mysterious world is amazing. I didn’t like the other two in the trilogy quite as much but still enjoyed them. Apparently he is working on a fourth book! I also loved Borne, which has a completely different vibe. The audiobook was great because of the voice for Borne.
I ended up not finishing the Martian chronicles for whatever reason, but I agree they’re a delight. It’s funny to read about old ideas of space travel, like that a spaceship would land somewhere and have no idea what was there (and not predicting that we’d have the whole planet mapped by probes long before anyone lands.) It makes sense though, that’s what it was like for the old explorers. I’m reading books about polar expedition from the 1800s and they used to think there was was a nice, moderate climate sea over the North Pole if they just got past the ring of ice around it. And didn’t find out differently until someone went there.
I added The Lathe of Heaven to my list