Casey’s Reviews
Review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
(and some commonplace ones, like bisexuality)
Welcome to Reviewsday Tuesday! Today’s pick is An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green. Parts of this review appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Bi Women Quarterly and a November 2018 YouTube video.
As my first post in the Reviewsday Tuesday publication on Medium, I wanted to choose a book that connected back to the origins of Reviewsday. Hank Green coined “Reviewsday Tuesday” in a video on Vlogbrothers.
I’ve always been a big fan of Vlogbrothers, a YouTube channel run by John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and other bestselling novels, and Hank Green, science educator and entrepreneur. Hank’s debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, is a new adult sci-fi that will appeal to readers of YA. There is also a sequel that released in 2020, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, which I have not yet read.
Plot Summary (no spoilers)
The plot of AART is complex but very easy to follow. In alternate-2018 where an HRC-like character is POTUS, April May, an art school grad working for a start-up in New York, stumbles a 10-foot-tall robot outside Chipotle at 3AM and, mistaking it for an art installation (or…
