Book: Danial Suarez's "Delta-V"

My fourth book of the year was from an author I've read before, Daniel Suarez.  It's been fourteen years since I read "Daemon" and "Freedom".  His new book, the first of two, is "Delta-V", a near future science fiction book about asteroid mining.

There are really two parallel tales in this book.  The main one is the selection, training, and launching of the asteroid miners.  The secondary tale is about the subterfuge and law bending used to finance the asteroid mining mission.  The main tale is well written and interesting.  The secondary tale stretches credulity.

Credulity is a variable.  If I'd read this book when it first came out in 2019 I would have really struggled with that secondary tale, but now, after a couple months of the President and Elmo, I could start to see something like this happening in our 'new world chaos'.  Along with this I found it weird that the American life seen in the background of the storytelling was so normal.  I struggled to understand how we could get from where we are to where the book is in the mid 2030s.  This has always been an issue for me.  I once stopped reading a Clancy-esque war drama after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  I just couldn't get over how the world in the book could no longer mesh with the real world.  I guess you could say, in terms of near term sci-fi, we have reached the singularity.

Despite this I liked the book and gave it four stars out of five on Goodreads.  It was interesting enough that I have added the sequel to my reading list.