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Compulsively readable The New York Times Book Review
Inventive and thrilling I couldnt put it down
Brit Bennett 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half
Its a thrill to read this novel
Jia Tolentino New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror
The gripping story of one scientist in outer space another who watches over him the family left behind and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love
For twenty years Alex has believed that his geneedited superalgae will slow and even reverse the effects of climate change His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage his relationships with his kids and his own professional future When the Son sisters founders of the colossal tech company Sensus offer him a chance to complete his research he seizes the opportunity The catch His lab will be in outer space on Parallaxis the firstever luxury residential space station built for billionaires Alex and six other scientists leave Earth and their loved ones to become Pioneers the beta tenants of Parallaxis
But Parallaxis is not the space palace they were sold Day and night the embittered crew builds the facility under pressure from Sensus motivated by the promise that their families will join them At home on Earth much of the country is ablaze in wildfires and battered by storms In Michigan Alexs teenage daughter Mary Agnes struggles through high school with the help of the ubiquitous Sensus phones implanted in everyones ears archiving each humiliation and wishing she could go to Parallaxis with her fatherbut her mother will never allow it
The Pioneers are the beta testers of another program too Sensus is designing an algorithm that will predict human behavior Katherine Son hires Tess a young social psychologist to watch the experiments subjects through their phonesincluding not only the Pioneers but Katherines sister Rachel Tess begins to develop an intimate obsessive relationship with her subjects When Tess and Rachel travel to Parallaxis the controlled experiment begins to unravel
Prescient and insightful A House Between Earth and the Moon is at once a captivating epic about the machinations of big tech and a profoundly intimate meditation on the unmistakably human bonds that hold us together
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