So sorry you got this level of harassment for doing something intended to help the reading community. What terrible moderation, not to mention disgusting, immature behavior. {{hugs}}
I just read The Martian, by Andrew Weir. Apparently originally self-published, which might make you run away, but made me curious when I heard they're now making a movie of it. I really liked it. For one thing, the science/engineering is excellently researched and visioned. Many opportunities for fail which were blatantly avoided, and a compelling space rescue story. Far better than Interstellar, for instance.
If you haven't heard of it, the premise is that in the very near future a team of astronauts who were sent to Mars to live there for months are forced to evacuate after only a few days because of unexpected storms. One astronaut is skewered by flying debris in the storm, and his companions lose sight of him and see that his bio-readouts are all transmitting zero. Given the dire circumstances, they leave his body behind. After they've left, he wakes up, not too bad off physically, for some lucky but unexpected reasons, and now he's stuck on Mars.
Anyway, I just returned it to the library with great reluctance. Sorry if it's already old hat in your review queue, but it's the first thing I thought of when you asked for recs here.
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I just read The Martian, by Andrew Weir. Apparently originally self-published, which might make you run away, but made me curious when I heard they're now making a movie of it. I really liked it. For one thing, the science/engineering is excellently researched and visioned. Many opportunities for fail which were blatantly avoided, and a compelling space rescue story. Far better than Interstellar, for instance.
If you haven't heard of it, the premise is that in the very near future a team of astronauts who were sent to Mars to live there for months are forced to evacuate after only a few days because of unexpected storms. One astronaut is skewered by flying debris in the storm, and his companions lose sight of him and see that his bio-readouts are all transmitting zero. Given the dire circumstances, they leave his body behind. After they've left, he wakes up, not too bad off physically, for some lucky but unexpected reasons, and now he's stuck on Mars.
Anyway, I just returned it to the library with great reluctance. Sorry if it's already old hat in your review queue, but it's the first thing I thought of when you asked for recs here.