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Simon & Schuster · Paperback · September 17, 2024
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Logic comes the highly anticipated second novel set in the far future as two friends uncover if the utopian planet Paradise lives up to its name.
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- Who it’s for
- A propulsive far-future journey pairs questions about utopia with two pilots’ changing view of home.
- Themes
- Space colonization, Utopia under scrutiny, Environmental collapse
- Pacing
- Fast
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Logic comes the highly anticipated second novel set in the far future as two friends uncover if the utopian planet Paradise lives up to its name. In the year 2115, when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, the remainder of humanity lives in Babel, a giant space station. Two pilots, Quentin and Kai, must find the planet Paradise, where only the most promising citizens are allowed to live.
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On their journey, Quentin and Kai encounter Quentin’s estranged father, who left Babel for Paradise when Quentin was a child, and they discover just how different Paradise is from what they imagined—and how they must change it for the better. The bestselling author of Supermarket and platinum-selling hip-hop artist, Logic, returns to fiction with this gripping and propulsive sci-fi novel.
Paradise, Reconsidered
A propulsive far-future journey pairs questions about utopia with two pilots’ changing view of home.
Come here for
- Spacefaring science fiction with an uneasy vision of utopia
- A search that grows personal as well as planetary
Expect
- A sustained narrative journey through humanity’s future
- Two friends confronting how Paradise differs from expectation
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 40% |
|---|---|
| Space Exploration Fiction | 35% |
| Dystopian | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- Logic
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- September 17, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Space colonization · Utopia under scrutiny · Environmental collapse
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure