Walking to Aldebaran

This was the first book I read in 2024 and nothing else has topped it so far. Even Animal Farm couldn't topple it. Suck on that, George Orwell!

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a juggler of humor, worldbuilding and character work. He doesn't even seem to struggle with it! This man writes such creative feats of pure literary magic. Every story is like an unhinged, dark(er) Terry Pratchett.

A trek through a multiversal asteroid (thing? Alive rock being, maybe?), Walking to Aldebaran follows an astronaut who, separated from his crew, fights his way to rejoin them.

What follows is a thrilling, dark-humor tinted journey full of twists and adventure.

Clever, laugh-out-loud sci-fi, just as Tchaikovsky always delivers.