3 Sci-Fi Books to bunker under Stormy Weather

These books transport you (one literally) to parallel universes, with brooding local weather providing the ideal backdrop.

I find myself needing a strong book to cozy or bunker under during rainy or stormy weather. A cup of tea or coffee, a window seat to view the dark brooding weather that focuses my attention on a book, is a mini-vacation.

I enjoy sci-fi books that are dark, vast and deep. All that means is, those books that transport my mind into a world/universe, giving a glimpse of it and then making my mind run wild with possibilities.

The following books hit all the right notes, along those lines.

  1. Sleeping Giants — Sylvain Neuvel
  2. Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
  3. Seveneves — Neal Stephenson

“Fantastic action, adventure, fantasies with great science details.”


Sleeping Giants

This book by Sylvain Neuvel has a style that reminds me of Michael Crichton, the classic War of the Worlds and The Martian.

It starts with a girl falling into a pit only to find herself on a giant metal hand…

If it gives you an initial impression of the movie Pacific Rim, you’ve oversimplified it.

It blows my mind on possibilities and how tiny we are in the Universe.


Dark Matter

This book by Blake Crouch will remind you a little of the movie Total Recall.

It starts with a physics professor who wakes up one day to find himself to be a celebrated genius, as well as his wife and child never to have existed…

It made me think of all the major decisions that you made in your life and all the what-ifs on making alternate choices.

In a parallel universe, I never wrote this blog post…


Seveneves

This book by Neal Stephenson was shortlisted for 2016 Hugo Award.

It will remind you of the movies 2012, Wall-E; science & math details of the books What If and The Martian.

It starts with the moon blowing up due to yet unknown reasons and everything that happens to life as we know it…

It made me think of everthing at stake with life on earth and all the dimensions to it.

All these books need to be made into a movie or movie trilogies.


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