Good Morning to one of my new favourites.

What a stellar (literally) book. The prose is spectacular, the pacing is wonderful, and the themes...the themes!!! I'm a softie for work that explores loneliness, grief, "what could have been", and fleeting human connections, and this had it all.

The alternating chapters follow a handful of human suddenly isolated from the rest of the world - some are in the Arctic, some are in space, and no radio signals are coming through. The rest of the earth has gone completely quiet. The haunting isolation of the arctic tundra and the vastness of space are gorgeously written and I won't say more since it's a "best to go in blind" kind of book.

Can someone let me know what very-specific-sub-genre this, Sea of Tranquility, and How High We Go In the Dark all belong to? I'm settling for "literary speculative light sci-fi featuring an apocalypse and sad humans doing their best" and it may well bey favourite genre.

Highly recommended if you like being sad (in space!) and love character driven stories.

More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/N3d0uvty-uQ
And also here: https://youtu.be/ph6RGiTwc18