I’m doing a book swap with my physics-major friend and she really likes reading sci-fi and anything related to physics. She particularly likes sci-fi that gets the science right. However, she has read quite a lot of sci fi so I’m hoping to get her something more underground that she wouldn’t have necessarily crossed paths with before.
by xbrooksie
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The caves of steel, but it might not be scifi enough, its more grounded than your typical scifi setting.
*To be Taught if Fortunate* by Becky Chambers – a beautiful piece of hard scifi about spacefaring and discovery.
At the other end of the spectrum:
*A Short Stay in Hell* by Steven Peck – the terror and horror of the infinite in the afterlife. Seems to particularly disquiet mathematicians.
*Aurora* by Kim Stanley Robinson, or older books of his such as the Mars trilogy.
Not sure how underground these would be, but:
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. An unknown entity (i.e., aliens) makes the stars disappear, and the characters all deal with it in different ways — ignoring it, turning to religion, trying to figure out what kind of artifact caused it, etc.
The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer (Hominids, Humans, Hybrids). Due to an error that occurs while conducting a quantum computing experiment, a scientist gets transported to a parallel universe.
If she hasn’t read Flatland, she really needs to do so!
The Traitor’s Victory by E M Lethbridge is a great book by an indie author who it says is a scientist herself, so believable science is probably a priority for her.
Project hail mary