Summary
The moon has exploded, no one knows who done it, but scientists quickly figure out that it will spell the end of the world in approximately two years.
Thoughts
The first half of this book was nearly flawless. Positioned as a hyper realistic sci-fi similar to books like ‘Martian’, it faithfully, to a layman at least, describes what the experience would be like for people trying to survive in what could be described as a slightly improved international space station. The major thing that stuck out to me from the book was just how easy it was to sympathize with the characters’ predicament. This was in part a product of exemplary writing, but there was also something more. Something hauntingly familiar about the way the explosion of the moon occurred. I could easily imagine the way the story would propagate across our information superhighways. The neuronal synapses it would causes to fire, the horror, but also the detachment that would follow. This fictional series of events felt all too familiar for reasons that are difficult to explain.
The second half of this book changes tones dramatically, and with it goes my ‘5 star’ rating that I’m sure the author has been waiting with bated breath to receive. He will have to live on knowing that he sabotaged himself by not stopping the book with the first resolution.