Singer Distance

In lieu of my usual review style, here's the crazed list of notes I wrote on a white board while reading this book: - what a WRITER. Plot progresses forward as he comments on certain aspects of the human condition. He multitasks in a way I have never seen done so efficiently before - emotion of curios......more

Stand out read for the year. Smart and intriguing with a thread of mystery, Mars, math, music, mania and love 💛 “The idea is that we—we, us—don’t see what’s true because we’re looking at a three-dimensional object in two dimensions. Our whole species has the bad habit of looking at one aspect of a th......more

In many ways, this novel was not what I expected. Set in an alternative history where Martians and Earth communicate through the universal language of math, I expected something more fantastical and sci-fish. No, the novel revealed itself to be even better, delving into the mysteries of the human he......more

Singer Distance is a quirky little book set in an alternate history in which humans communicate with Martians via math equations mapped out in deserts and farmlands for the other planet to see. Other than this premise, I'd call the book contemporary/historical fiction rather than sci fi. I have mixe......more

A strange and wonderful speculative fiction story about the world if we had already communicated with Martians. In 1960, a group of MIT grad students, including Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick take a cross country road trip to communicate with Mars. By this time, it's well known that the martians......more