Ratings83
Average rating3.9
It's Sci Fi but it kind of reads like a mystery.The book starts with the stars suddenly “going out” and the rest of the novel has this element of mystery where your'e ultimately digging deeper and deeper and deeper into why this is happening. But unlike a standard mystery novel where you start with a broad cone of hypotheses and then whittle it down until you collapse to a single theory, with this novel you start with a broad band of hypothesis and every time you learn something new it is like the book has said “oh. Yeah. Those were all good ideas. And totally made sense. But you forgot you could look at things from this perspective and now everything looks entirely different... here's a hint.” and your understanding of it all shifts and you have an entirely NEW broad band of hypotheses. So unlike a standard mystery novel where the satisfaction comes from gaining knowledge and narrowing your view of the problem, here the satisfaction comes from having to contort your perspective to see things fresh every time and reshape your theories.