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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I started Sunstorm (the second book of the Time Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter). Narrated by John Lee.
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I really enjoyed that series. Clarke's ideas often fare better in someone else's hands.
I just finished up Skyward, by Brandon Sanderson, and it was a lot of fun. YA is usually not my thing, including Sanderson's other YA work, but this one had solid characters, a world you want to learn more about, and real-feeling stakes. The sci-fi is decidedly soft - basically the technology is magic. Not indistinguishable from magic: just magic. Still, the result is more of a fun Saturday-morning-cartoons vibe, rather than a "You're lazy and don't understand what people like about science fiction" vibe (*cough* Star Trek Discovery *cough*). There are strong echoes of Ender's Game, though things turn out very differently.
I'm also most of the way through The Quantum Magician, which I started on audio and ended up switching to print. I can't say there's anything wrong with the narration - I just found myself zoning out and losing track of the story. Maybe it will wow me with the ending, but so far it's a 3-star read/listen. It seems strongly influenced by both Seveneves and The Culture, which should be good news, but the result seems like less than the sum of its parts.