I really should learn to trust twitter. When so many people I follow describe a book as unputdownable, I should just plan for it.
Generation ships are one of the things in my wheelhouse and this one, with its mix of history and futurity, was excellent.
The politics are painfully real, the racial dynamics are incredibly well developed, and Solomon is unflinching in their portrayal of what was. And yet the science fictional elements, the promise of what might be, feel like both a redemption and a despair.
Ugh, it’s just really good.