The Humans
When an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, his first impressions of humans are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete his task and hurry back to his own utopian planet. Disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, he is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to reconsider.
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- Anything Neal Stephenson. I've read them all. Multiple times.
But some other stuff that people haven't yet mentioned that I enjoyed:
- Matt Haig: The Humans, How to Stop Time
- Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon trilogy
- Ramez Naam: Nexus Trilogy
- Hugh Howie: Silo series
- Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
- Ernest Cline: Ready Player 1
- - Harry Potter and methods of rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky Great intro to rationality, so fun to see a different take on a world you likely already know.
- Kindred by Octavia Butler Such an interesting perspective on the psychology of what it takes to break a human being. In the worst way possible.
- The Humans by Matt Haig Being outside of the human race, the language is so jarring and alien.
- The Humans by Matt Haig was a very fun read, I think you'll enjoy it.
- Currently reading: The Humans, by Matt Haig.
Funny, insightful, perceptive. It's a really great book.
- our scifi book club recently had optimistic scifi as a theme. the nominations were:
and a few months before that we had "feel-good scifi":Matt Haig: The Humans Cory Doctorow: Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom *Suzanne Palmer: Finder* John C Wright: The Golden Age Ada Palmer: Too Like the Lightning *Nnedi Okorafor: Binti* Nicky Drayden: The Prey of Gods Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Lindsay Ellis: Axiom’s End
the ones marked with a * i have read.Anne McCaffrey: Partnership Anthology: Adventures in Space Ginger Booth: Thrive Space Colony Adventures: Skyship Thrive *Glynn Stewart: Starship Mage* Meredith Katz: The Cybernetic Tea Shop Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet *Rob Dircks: The Wrong Unit* Suzanne Palmer: Finderi can also share this list: https://best-sci-fi-books.com/the-best-optimistic-science-fi...
- Good timing for me. I'm in the middle of listening to "The Humans" by Matt Haig. The story opens after someone proves the Riemann hypothesis.
