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Just finished it and what a positive surprise! I'm still contemplating if I should round the 4.5 rating up or down (I didn't want to give so many 5 stars this year, so for the time being I go for 4). More often than not the award winners are not exactly to my taste. But here I could easily see why the book was chosen. Most of the SF books I've read lately that dive more into the sciency side of universal phenomena were too explanatory, used too many characters and made none of them relatable.

Here is a well balanced mix of character interaction and wonderful sciency weirdness. The mc is interesting enough that I liked to follow his journey and the narration structure with the two timelines slowly merging together is my preferred structure anyway. Plus, I never had the feeling that the novel could do with some 100 pages less (unfortunately a notion I often have at the end of books). The prose, too, never felt too clinical, but had a good flow and even some poetic moments, which I loved.

Nice to know that such authors exist.

This end-of-the-world story with a twist has me certainly hooked enough to go on to the next books in the series. Even though I like the ending of the first volume just fine. It has a short story feeling that leaves a lot of room for the imagination of the reader.