The Space Between the Stars

De: Anne Corlett

Narrado por: Mary Woodvine

A Recommended Summer Read from The Verge and io9
A Recommended June Read from Hello Giggles and Tor.com

When the world ends, where will you go?

In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories.

All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn’t forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit...

Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that’s left of the dead. Until a garbled message from Earth gives her hope that someone from her past might still be alive.

Soon Jamie finds other survivors, and their ragtag group will travel through the vast reaches of space, drawn to the promise of a new beginning on Earth. But their dream will pit them against those desperately clinging to the old ways. And Jamie’s own journey home will help her close the distance between who she has become and who she is meant to be...

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Praise for The Space Between the Stars

“The Space Between the Stars is, ultimately, a kind novel. Strikingly written, with very human characters and a deep concern with human frailty, it is an excellent debut.”—Tor.com

"Anne Corlett has taken the themes of apocalypse, people attempting to create Utopia but unleashing Armageddon, population engineering and breeding programs, and put her particular stamp on the familiar. The Space Between the Stars is a sci-fi story laced with homey details like e-readers and jigsaw puzzles--there are no esoteric descriptions of warp drives or biodomes or aliens. But there is adventure, there is romance, there is self-discovery.”--Shelf Awareness

“With its unique plot and luminous prose, it’s hard to believe that The Space Between the Stars is a debut novel. Anne Corlett understands the complexities and frailties of the human heart and captures it brilliantly on the page. Don’t let the setting fool you—this is a story for any age, combining love, loss, grief, hope, and possibilities all in one delicious book. Definitely one for my keeper shelf.”—Karen White, New York Times bestselling author of The Night the Lights Went Out

“Anne Corlett is a writer with huge potential, and I’m looking forward to her future works.”—Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“[A] fast-moving and gripping ‘end of the worlds’ tale focused on the efforts of flawed survivors to ensure the end is not the end of humanity.”—Jack Campbell, New York Times bestselling author of Vanguard

“An original thinker and a very, very effective writer.”—Fay Weldon, author of Before the War

Great sci-fi story from a female perspective.

this book had mixed reviews, but I gave it a shot, it was a very unique story, very well written. The only issues with the story was there was very little detail on technical issues like space travel and things like that, but all in all it was a very solid story with with detailed characters who are actually interesting people.

good choice for book club

interesting premise. Thought provoking. should create some good discussion at book club. I liked the characters.

Sci fi without wars

I just wanted some sci to that wasn't all wars, interstellar battles or YA fiction. This fit the bill. The protagonist does get a bit bothersome, there are some cliches, but it's end of the world done in a quieter, more contemplative way. Not a fabulous book, but I'm a getting a little tired of military space thrillers, grimdark monotony, YA books and rehashed that anything a bit more character based and written for an adult is refreshing. Plus, loved the narrator. Can anyone recommend science based sci to that isn't military and has some original premises????

Struggles of life after human race is nearly gone

I enjoyed the main character and travel companions as well as the story's evolution through the stars.

Touches on topics like what would happen if there was a mass outbreak that decimated humans, how would society function, who would want to do that/benefit from it.

As well there is the emotional side of it, how would we mentally cope with being alone, isolated, possinly so spread apart that we'd be unable or unwilling to reproduce, etc. How would we treat each other.

Much food for thought and a satisfying enough finish for my taste.

Interesting.

You know how it is when you are younger and you are too shy or too loud and awkward or just don't fit in for whatever reason? You tell yourself (or at least I did) that when you grow up you will figure out how to fix your oddities and everyone will do the same for themselves so then things will be better you will fit in. However, when you do grow up, you find that you and everyone else is much the same. Your psychosis or mal-adaptations still exist. Well, this book is finding out that even at the end of the world we are all much the same as much as we would think we would change and get over our obsessions because death and survival are that much more pressing. Interesting.