I loved these little touches, and they really helped to immerse me in the world of the story.īut at some point, I became aware that the story was quite drastically changing. There are a few different POVs, and the narrative is interspersed with quotes from characters “looking back” at the events of the book. The book is very readable, and held my attention over the two days that I read it. The Last Astronaut has a mild case of this problem, in my opinion.
If the genres don’t mix well, or if the book jumps back and forth between them, it can feel a little messy. One of the dangers with mixing genres is that a book can seem like it has an identity crisis.
It was an interesting genre mix that I’d never experienced before, and it intrigued me, but there were things that did and didn’t work for me. While there were several hard SF aspects, and the background and aesthetics of the first half of the book give the impression that it’s going to be a hard SF story, I found that by the end it leaned far more heavily to the “Horror” side of things. The appearance of this object encourages NASA to send one last mission - involving the last-living astronaut, Sally Jansen - to make first contact. NASA’s space exploration division has long since been shut down after a few fatal and high-profile accidents, and private companies have stepped in to fill that niche. To boil the book down to its premise, The Last Astronaut is a story about an alien object that is on course to enter Earth’s atmosphere. I thought that The Last Astronaut would be such a book, and it was… to an extent. The kind where the characters have to rely on good, old-fashioned science and hack-job engineering to get out of a jam. I’ve a bit of a soft spot for hard sci-fi stories. Out of time and options, NASA turns to its last living astronaut – Commander Sally Jansen, who must lead a team of raw recruits on a mission to make First Contact.īut as the object reveals its secrets, Jansen and her crew find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival – against the cold vacuum of space, and something far, far worse. A huge alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth.
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