{4.5\/5} “He was watching the Earth roll by. The planet filled half the sky, stretching toward distant hazy horizons. Directly below paraded a vastly bright panorama that never repeated itself, highlighted topographies that were ever-familiar and yet always startling.”<\/p>\n
Earth<\/strong> by David Brin, published in 1990<\/p>\n Alex created a tiny black hole in a controlled environment. Protestors broke in and disrupted things, and now the black hole is in the Earth’s core. But he’s the only one who knows it — he needs a wealthy patron to help retrieve it. Meanwhile, Teresa pilots a space shuttle to the station but soon after arrival an unexplained disaster makes her disengage and splits the station into pieces.<\/p>\n If you’re a fan of Stephen Baxter and Kim Stanley Robinson, you’ll like this book.<\/p>\n It’s about teenagers and seniors, privacy, environmentalism, and the results of human ingenuity and human thoughtlessness. It’s about different ideas about how to live.<\/p>\n It’s a technological mystery with the fate of the planet at stake. It’s science-y but the story and characters will keep you reading.<\/p>\n