![]() ![]() ★★★★★ 'What a gripping, unputdownable story.' Amazon reviewer ★★★★★ 'An entertaining sci-fi adventure in the tradition of Douglas Adams.' Amazon reviewer ★★★★★ 'This is a fun SciFi read.' Netgalley ★★★★★ 'VERY highly recommended.' Goodreads ![]() ★★★★★ ' A triumph of high adventure.' Readers' Favorite What others are saying about Space Taxis: If you like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5, and Frank Herbert's Dune, you'll love this gripping and entertaining sci-fi mystery thriller. ![]() Redolfo tries to keep a low profile on his new world whilst earning his fare home, but unwittingly gets involved with a shady gang of alien criminals, inadvertently bringing the planet to the brink of catastrophe.Īs the link between the timelines becomes clear, Redolfo must discover secrets from the past that may hold the key to saving the planet. Meanwhile, back in 1944 a mysterious man and his Jewish fiancée are fleeing across Nazi-occupied Europe. ![]() In 1977 a New York Cab driver Mike Redolfo is abducted by aliens after being mistaken for a renegade scientist. But he's got the small matter of a planetary apocalypse to deal with first. Description He's abducted by aliens to the planet Vost. ![]()
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When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.Īs a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. His family knows better-that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions-like grief. From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 2 (“How the Wicked World Was Made”) follows up by explaining the opposing concept of “wicked” environments. ![]() Sports and chess are examples of kind environments. ![]() However, Epstein points out, the version of training they received is only suitable to so-called “kind” environments, in which rules are clear, outcomes are definitive, and feedback is swift. Laszlo Polgar trained his daughters from an early age to become masters of chess, and they did indeed achieve exceptional success. ![]() Epstein draws on these contrasting stories to introduce one of the basic points of Range: while sustained, focused training from an early age can lead to some versions of success, many fields and individuals benefit from the many other paths of development that exist.Ĭhapter 1 (“The Cult of the Head Start”) expands on the book’s introduction by telling the story of the Polgars, a family that includes several famous chess champions. Woods was made to practice golf intensively from a very young age while Federer was given the freedom to explore a number of sports and only settled on tennis in his late teens by his own choice. While both men have become some of the most elite athletes in history (in the sports of golf and tennis, respectively), their paths to success look very different. In the “Introduction,” Epstein introduces the contrasting stories of Tiger Woods and Roger Federer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The elevator pitch might well have been "'Ocean's 11' on the moon."Īndy Weir joins us for the podcast, and talks about how he got from Mars to the moon, why other first-city-in-space stories generally don't make any sense and just how you follow up one of the biggest publishing-industry success stories of the last decade. And instead of using an encyclopedic knowledge of space travel to survive the elements, she rounds up an eclectic team of slightly damaged moon citizens to pull off a daring (but well-intentioned) criminal caper. Protagonist Jazz Bashara is a far cry from the earnest botanist of "The Martian," Mark Watney. Part vacation hotspot, part mining town, the city of Artemis has a healthy underground economy in smuggling and vice, all following the tourism dollars flowing in from Earth. " Artemis," his new novel, is set on the first city on the moon. Subscribe: CNET RSS | iTunes | FeedBurner | Google Play | TuneIn | StitcherĪ more pressing question may be: How do you follow up a massive blockbuster like " The Martian?" That book started out as a self-published serialized online novel in 2011, became a viral hit, was picked up by a mainstream publisher, and ended up as a hit Ridley Scott movie.įor Weir, the answer was to move the action a few decades further out into the future, but closer to home. Your browser does not support the audio element. CNET Book Club, Episode 3: "Artemis" by Andy Weir ![]() ![]() ![]() “But if simply talking does this to you, then I need to know the rest, so I can help you through it. Gabi? And Faith? Not alone, not abandoned. You will continue with the counselor-she and Gabi can come here-but even so, things will set you off. As her trembling slowed, he said, “I know something of trauma. He waited, simply holding her, one hand running up and down her arm. How did being ordered to talk make her blurt things out like that? Warmth and strength enfolded her, not frightening her. He plucked her up like a dandelion and sat down with her in his arms. She couldn’t answer, just started to shake.Ī growl came from him. But…I think this is why you were hurt so badly?”īadly. He stared at her, then burst out laughing, and with the sound of his hearty laughter, open and pleased, the darkness in her head shrank. Her nausea eased.Īfter she’d managed a few breaths, he sat back, taking her hand again. The memories retreated, pushed away by his anger…for her. To Command and Collar (Masters of the Shadowlands #6)(12) ![]() |