{"id":603937,"date":"2026-04-14T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:23:10","slug":"five-books-about-space-to-fill-your-post-artemis-ii-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603937\/","title":{"rendered":"Five books about space to fill your post-Artemis II void"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

For 10 days, the astronauts of Artemis II <\/a>had the world in thrall. We marvelled at their bravery, teared up at their camaraderie, and were reminded (a rare thing these days) that not all human endeavour brings destruction. Hope, for a little more than a week, was a thing with rocket boosters. <\/p>\n

Books we’re reading and loving this month<\/a><\/p>\n

And while we all breathed a collective sigh of relief when the crew emerged unscathed from their capsule<\/a>, you\u2019re not alone if you\u2019ve got a post-Integrity void in your life. <\/p>\n

You could watch videos on repeat of Nutella floating in zero gravity \u2013 or you could recapture some of the daring and wonder of this historic mission through other stories about space. <\/p>\n

Here are five books to keep you in orbit just a little longer.<\/p>\n

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/p>\n

Part-thriller, part-love story, this novel about the first cohort of female astronauts admitted to NASA\u2019s space program in the 1980s blends high-stakes drama \u2013 it flashes between a mission gone disastrously long and the previous four years of training \u2013 and Jenkins Reid\u2019s virtuoso skill at creating characters you care about and really, really don\u2019t want to die a horrific death in space. <\/p>\n

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir<\/p>\n

Before it was a Hollywood blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling<\/a>, Project Hail Mary was a book by Andy Weir, also known for The Martian. It starts with what arguably might be your worst nightmare: Waking up alone on a spacecraft with no idea how you got there and what you\u2019re supposed to be doing in this entirely different galaxy. The stakes only get higher from there, when it turns out this high school teacher is humanity\u2019s last hope of staving off extinction.<\/p>\n

Cosmos by Carl Sagan<\/p>\n

Essential reading for everyone, not just the space-inclined, this history of the universe is just as timeless \u2013 and extraordinary \u2013 as when it was published to massive acclaim in 1980. More than just an astrophysics primer by a pre-eminent astronomer, it\u2019s a profound meditation on the meaning of existence that, even 46 years later, regularly spawns Reddit threads about how life-changing and mind-blowing it is. <\/p>\n

Orbital by Samantha Harvey <\/p>\n

This Booker Prize-winning novel is a tight 24-hour narrative as six astronauts hurtle through space en route to one of the final missions of a soon-to-be decommissioned space station. More meditation than nail-biter, Harvey is Sagan-esque in her interest in contemplating our place in the cosmos. <\/p>\n

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry<\/p>\n

Something for those who might prefer to keep their feet firmly on earth, this novel follows two best friends over several decades, pulled back into each other\u2019s orbit by an enduring mystery surrounding an astronomer who disappeared in the 19th century. Maria V\u0103duva, the vanished astronomer, may or may not haunt a local stately home, restless until her breakthroughs in astronomy are finally acknowledged. What is certain is that friendship is mysterious and awesome, much like the stars above us.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This article has been corrected to state that Ryan Gosling, not Ryan Reynolds, stars in the film version of Project Hail Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: For 10 days, the astronauts of Artemis II had the world in thrall.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,2922,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-603937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-noastack","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}