I used to be a bookworm.
So So, I have read many novels, in fact, I have quite a collection of books from one author Orson Scott Card.
However, the book I would like to talk about discuss today was neither written by him nor by a single writer.
It is the short sci-fi novel, Red Dwarf.
Infinity welcomes careful drivers written by two people Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
This book was given to me as a gift back in.
Nineteen ninety two ninety-two, the story story, follows the lives of several characters and is set in a very distant future.
When space travel is not only possible but , but it's a way of life.
A man named Lister.
Became the last man alive on board, a spaceship called the The the Wharf, he thought he could be someone important some day, but all he ever got were menial jobs, which he despised.
So So, he decided not to get back to Earth Earth, and found that the best way to do this was to break a rule and be in stasis and not grow older.
While en route to Earth Earth, the they rule with the lightest punishment.
He could break was bringing an encore in teen animal on board, which he did.
He brought in a pregnant cat cat, which landed him in stasis? Unfortunately or maybe fortunately a nuclear reactor on the ship failed while he was in stasis and killed every person on board except for him to prevent the radiation from leaking into inhabited areas, Holly the ship's computer maneuvered.
The Red Dwarf away leaving Lister in stays is for three million years.
Surprisingly, the cat he brought in survived as well because she and her babies were in the Shimmer hold hold, safe from the radiation.
When he was released list to list, her found himself, millions of light-years away from Earth with only Holly a hologram of his remaining dreamer and a talking cat that evolved from the original cat.
He brought to keep him company.
They wage Actually grew to loathe each other in due course, as familiarity breeds contempt, the story ends with Lister trying to get back to Earth, but gets lost in a virtual reality game.
With all the other characters, it is interesting to see what happens when people are forced to live with the same group of characters day in and day out out, makes you question.
Whether it is a better wage to be alone in such a situation situation, in a way.
I think it would be unbearable for me to be utterly alone.
But spending time with the person or people that that, I find, insufferable can be just as torturous.
The way, the characters were at each other's throat.
Made me ask if list all should end everything and be done with it.
The book began as a comedy but , but got darker progressively.
The ending was so open, we can interpret it in many ways.
I believe all of them perished trapped inside a non-existent world.
I am still on the fence as to whether whether this was a good thing.
It also made me realize That space travel.
Only looks attractive until something.
Goes horribly wrong.
Then you long for Earth?