My Hesitancy with Space Books
I feel like one type of book I am always hesitant to pick up are books that take place in space...as in outer space. I feel like it's a mix of reasons. Firstly, space always felt like a complicated subject. That in order to get there, you're going to need a spaceship of some kind and it's going to be all techy and complicated. I feel like there could be too much time spent of explaining the logistics of the spaceship and space itself. Then there's the whole lack of oxygen.
Then you throw in planets and galaxies and things start to get really complicated because we sometimes end up on other planets or universes and then there's the whole explanation of life on this planet. Then we have the people/characters who may not be 100% human but humanoid.
I don't know...it just always felt like these books are bound to be complicated and I always feared they'd be overly complicated. I have read some mix of them, I've had ones that were rather simple and you forget you're even in space, then there were the ones that made my brain hurt because they were so detailed in the descriptions of things and how the ship flew and worked and what life on these planets were like. It was always hard to follow or grasp what kind of world I was in.
I also worried that the books would feel a little "lost" or something? I mean if it takes place in space, you might just be resorted to life on a spaceship. But I have found that even with that kind of limitations these books can still be amazing!
Needless to say that even with my hesitancy to pickup "space" books I have found many delightful ones that have become favorites such as The Lunar Chronicles, The Illuminae Files, and Jessie Mihalik's books! I read one of her trilogies and still have another one on my TBR!
What about you? Have you ever felt some kind of struggle or hesitancy to read a book that takes place in outer space? Is there another type of setting that would make you hesitate to pickup a book if it largely took place there?
