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Historically, these sorts of pleasure reading book recommendations from HN tend to be very good.
Interestingly, Michael F. Flynn has one yet-to-be-published work: "In the Belly of the Whale", which isn't scheduled for release until 2024 [0]. Hope he finished it <3.
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For anyone who enjoys metal (specifically story driven funeral doom) there's a really cool album called Ark by The Slow Death. It's about humanity torching Earth so badly they pool the remaining resources to escape with The Chosen Ones on humanity's last hope, a space ark trying to find a new planet to live on. It's a great, slow story and the band does an awesome job of building the atmosphere the lyrics are portraying.
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Edit: I'm not the only one -- copies are going quickly it seems, and I've already found a new paperback going for $100
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The River of Stars is an interplanetary craft, originally driven by solar sail, with snazzy new fusion drives recently added. The crew combines new fusion people and sail traditionalists, and they don't like each other. The story is part engineering, part psychology; everybody does what they think is best for the ship, but they don't communicate well and unfortunate things happen.