I got you, drjd. It sounds like you might like some hard-SF, as
Rama is a popular example of. The book I recently reread,
Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb is a nice newer example of this genre, and may be up your alley: it features mass-murder on a ship tumbling toward the sun. The science feels accurate without being too in-your-face, and the drama is gripping.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy would be hard SF, as well as Andy Wier's
The Martian, which I highly recommend.I'd Also recommend Larry Niven, Greg Bear, and Isaac Asimov.
Meanwhile I finished reading
Deliver Her by Patricia Perry Donovan and have begun to read
The Monster of Florence, a non-fic by Douglas Preston.
My quick review of
Deliver Her:
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This was not the type of book I would normally pick off the shelf, and I got it under the Kindle First program.
This is very much a family drama/coming of age type story that went kind of slow for me until about halfway through the book. Once the big crisis occurs, and the main character, Alex is lost in the wilds of New Hampshire, then the story picked up and ran to a decent conclusion.
The primary characters are well-written, and the teenager vs parent drama was realistic, but some of the secondary characters were kind of flat-- if the author didn't write their POV at some time during the story, then their characterization for the most part were lacking (the shining exception is the dead Cassie, who is pretty much a main character despite her being dead during the whole book). All in all, a worthwhile read for teens and parents of teens; as long as you can get through the long setup.
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