Bellwether
This is only the second Connie Willis book I’ve read. Like that book this is an excellent read.
Sandra Foster is a sociological researcher at a privately funded institution looking into fads and how they start, who is bought into contact with a researcher into Chaos Theory called Bennett O’Reilly after a parcel is delivered wrongly to her lab.
Not a book of great events or battles, this instead is all about the characters and the way they interact, the way they see the world and the consequences of those actions.
This book is rather lovely, with a lot of wit and good insight to the human condition and particularly good at skewering the ridiculousness of bureaucracy.
I particularly loved the breakdowns of various fads histories delivered at the start of every chapter.
I would recommend this book to pretty much anybody. I won’t guarantee that you’ll like it, but those that do will fall totally in love with it..