The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
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lightreadsThe Last Astronaut
2/5. NASA puts together a team of misfits to go investigate an alien object entering the solar system.
Within 10% I had mentally subtitled this oh please oh please oh please won't someone give me a movie deal, which, yeah. This is the novelization of a summer blockbuster that hasn't happened. You can feel him writing to the imagined action sequence. So if you want a dose of that in the absence of, you know, summer movies, here ya go. Just be aware that, as you might expect, the characters are all paper-thin and range from boring to unlikable. There is a cool science fictional premise here, but it could have been served by a short story, because upon finishing, it's clear to me that I did not actually want to spend the length of a novel with any of these people.
Content notes: A whole lot of space horror and alien body horror.
2/5. NASA puts together a team of misfits to go investigate an alien object entering the solar system.
Within 10% I had mentally subtitled this oh please oh please oh please won't someone give me a movie deal, which, yeah. This is the novelization of a summer blockbuster that hasn't happened. You can feel him writing to the imagined action sequence. So if you want a dose of that in the absence of, you know, summer movies, here ya go. Just be aware that, as you might expect, the characters are all paper-thin and range from boring to unlikable. There is a cool science fictional premise here, but it could have been served by a short story, because upon finishing, it's clear to me that I did not actually want to spend the length of a novel with any of these people.
Content notes: A whole lot of space horror and alien body horror.