The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on March 14th 2017
Pages: 384
Genres: Sci-fi
Format: Hardcover
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Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever.
In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov must prove they’re the crew for the job by spending seventeen months in the most realistic simulation every created.
Retired from NASA, Helen had not trained for irrelevance. It is nobody’s fault that the best of her exists in space, but her daughter can’t help placing blame. The MarsNOW mission is Helen’s last chance to return to the only place she’s ever truly felt at home. For Yoshi, it’s an opportunity to prove himself worthy of the wife he has loved absolutely, if not quite rightly. Sergei is willing to spend seventeen months in a tin can if it means travelling to Mars. He will at least be tested past the point of exhaustion, and this is the example he will set for his sons.
As the days turn into months the line between what is real and unreal becomes blurred, and the astronauts learn that the complications of inner space are no less fraught than those of outer space. The Wanderers gets at the desire behind all exploration: the longing for discovery and the great search to understand the human heart.
About Meg Howrey
Meg Howrey is the author of the novels THE WANDERERS, THE CRANES DANCE, and BLIND SIGHT. She is also the coauthor, writing under the pen-name Magnus Flyte, of the New York Times Bestseller CITY OF DARK MAGIC and CITY OF LOST DREAMS. Her non-fiction has appeared in Vogue and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Meg was a professional dancer who performed with the Joffrey Ballet and City Ballet of Los Angeles, among others. She made her theatrical debut in James Lapine's TWELVE DREAMS at Lincoln Center, and received the 2001 Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway National Tour of CONTACT.
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Barb (boxermommyreads)
Sounds like an interesting read and I haven’t seen this book before. I don’t read a lot of science fiction and I don’t know if this one will tempt me or not. I’ll have to wait to see a few reviews. Hope you love it though!
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Bonnie
Thanks, Barb! I’ve got my fingers crossed. 🙂
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Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy
I just added this to my TBR as well. If the blurb mentions Station Eleven, I’m in!
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Bonnie
Ack. I STILL need to read that! I was just thinking it had been too long since I’d read any post-apoc fiction. Maybe I’ll try to squeeze that in. 🙂
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Ronyell (a.k.a Rabbitearsblog)
This book sounds really interesting! I might pick it up for myself!
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Bonnie
Hope we both end up enjoying it. 🙂
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Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies
Interesting! I read The Cranes Dance, and would have never have imagined the same author writing science fiction. I’ll have to check this out!
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Bonnie
I thought the same thing when I looked at her other books. Never read that one though but authors that are able to bounce around in genres intrigue me for some reason. 🙂
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