Singer Distance

Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier is not a sci-fi novel, despite the presence of crop circles and the fact that scientists of Earth have been communicating with Mars for nearly a century. Instead, this is a novel about loneliness, choices, and love (of people, but mainly of math). When four MIT grad students believe that one of them has finally solved the most recent (yet three-decades-old) mathematical proof that beings on Mars carved into the red planet’s surface, they embark on an epic road trip to Arizona to carve their answer into the Earth. When Mars answers, one of the four—brilliant mathematician Crystal Singer—disappears, driven by her obsession to understand Mars’s latest proof. Her boyfriend struggles to understand her state of mind and the choices she made. This beautifully written debut novel is a love letter to science and exploration, and will change the way you look at the stars—and possibly those you love.