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Review

Rating: 10

It’s been very long time since I’ve read a pure Sci-Fi story that I’ve enjoyed this much. The author’s use of conversational blog style to record the main character’s thoughts makes the story immediately approachable and fun.

Ultimately this is a story about survival not of merely the body but of the human spirit under insanely difficult conditions. Perhaps this is best illustrated from this quote the end of the book: “If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do.”