The Short Story “Randomize”…

I’ve finished a short story, which GoodReads considers a book, but my close friend does not. If a piece of literature falls under a specific page or word count—the actual number escapes me at the moment—she removes it from her GoodReads list.

But I don’t do that. I read—no, I consume—so many books per year that one shorty like “Randomize” by Andy Weir would not really matter to the overall count. Which for me is over one hundred. Am I, heh, shorting myself by including these slim pieces of literature into my Have Read List? I don’t think so.

Yes, I read over one hundred books in a year.

That being, “Randomize” is a fun read. Weir has a knack for making the science in science fiction accessible, the technobabble un-Babel-like (see what I did here?), and his stories indeed benefit from this. I’ve recently finished reading, and watching, Project Hail Mary, where this particular knack of getting technical points across gets an entire novel to play out. The Martian is on my TBR List. Perhaps I’ll move it up.

Read this short story. It’s worth the half hour it takes for you to do so.