Christmas 2020: the great guide to gifting sci-fi novels

Which science fiction books to put at the foot of the tree? Here's our in-depth literary guide for Christmas 2020.

Every year, science fiction has its place at the foot of the tree, for the genre's ability to make us dream as much as to open up scientific, political and social horizons.Our 2019 Christmas guide remains relevant, but here is a Numerama selection dedicated to the 2020 publications.We offer a variety of formats and themes, ranging from uchronia, to collection, passing through Japanese aesthetics and ecology.In this guide, you will therefore necessarily find what you are looking for .

Uchronie SF: Towards the stars

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The novel by Mary Robinette Kowal is one of our huge favorites for the year 2020, and we had dedicated an entire column to it in October 2020.

Towards the Stars proposes to rewrite the conquest of space, by creating an event that never happened in 1952: a meteorite crashes off the east coast of the United States, causing a human catastrophe to cause climate change.here a few years, the Earth will no longer be habitable.The only solution: to go find another habitat in the cosmos.Except that the space program implemented ...is excluded to women.Yet it is a woman who discovered the climate impact of the event, namely Elma York, "calculator", brilliant mathematician, and former fighter pilot.

Elma York is not going to accept this situation.From the pen of Mary Robinette Kowal, space conquest turns into social conquest.It is wonderfully well written and captivating; with an atmosphere comparable to the best historical Netflix or BBC series - more SF.

Posted Date: 2021-01-01