Why am I passionate about this?
I took an introduction to philosophy class in college and the professor showed us how to think about thinking. Can you know something if itās actually untrue? Can people in a universe with an omniscient god who knows what theyāre going to do have free will? Are there universal principles of justice, or is justice based on circumstances? The class changed my taste in reading. Iād read science fiction and fantasy since I was a child, but after this class, I looked for fiction that made my brain hurt but also told a wonderful story. I try hard to meet this standard in my own fiction.
Steven's book list on bending your mind
Why did Steven love this book?
The book starts small(ish).
A single starship crewed by three different species and captained by a human explores space using a series of wormholes created byā¦ whom, exactly? No one knows.
Then an unknown ship with no visible propulsion system drops out of a wormhole and we're catapulted into an adventure that brings us to the mind-twisting origins of the universe as we know it.
Rob Sawyer lives across the river from me in Canada, and we ran into each other at several local science fiction conventions.
He gave me a copy of Starplex, and I accepted it with a vague, āI look forward to reading it.ā I didnāt actually intend to. But a couple weeks later, I idly flipped it open and started readingāand couldnāt stop.
1 author picked Starplex as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war. Original.