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SPOILER ALERT: Sounds like the plot of the sci-fi book Artemis by Andy Weir. Great Book and there's also a kick ass Audible version read by Rosario Dawson

Artemis by Andy Weir (the author of The Martian) its pretty good to relax before sleep

-The Broken Earth Trilogy: wow! Really fun to read and it packed an emotional sociopolitical message into an entertaining story with great characters.

-2312: interesting world, meh story.

-Artemis: fun, good read.

-Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy: Awesome science, mind blowing ending!

> potential game changer for lunar colonization

It's featured in the presmise of Artemis by Andy Weir.

This is quite interesting, the plot of Artemis by Andy Weir which is basically about a company trying to make fibre-glass in space might actually seem plausible.

Interestingly, this is exactly the process used in Andy Weir's new novel Artemis and makes oxygen the least of the problems of the moon city that the novel is named after.

This is pretty much the plot of Artemis by Andy Weir. Second best hard sci-fi novel in my opinion. The best being The Martian by Andy Weir. Arthur C. Clarke takes the next few spots.

I'm not reading TFA because I'm sure it's garbage, however Andy Weir, the guy who wrote The Martian (the book) recently out a new book out called Artemis and I won't spoil it, but there is a moon and there is people living on it.

Really awesome book with a TON of cool details about space and construction and chemistry and physics, orbital dynamics, welding, robotics, navigation, biology, religion, it literally has all this shit and more. Great book. One of the best I've read.

low attenuation fiber optic cables?

https://madeinspace.us/capabilities-and-technology/fiber-opt...

(similar to, but not the same as, zero attenuation fiber optic from the fictional book Artemis by Andy Weir)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_(novel)

If you like SciFi, and you didn’t read The Martian yet, then now’s a good time. In my opinion this is by far the best SciFi book of all time. Hard SciFi, in the style of Arthur C Clarke, but packed with 10 times the “sci” of the Odyssey or Rama. If you already read this, go for Andy Weir’s second novel, Artemis. Not the level of The Martian, but still better than 99.9975% of all the SciFi books out there.

That's not so long though, in the scheme of things. Especially if the computer was very fast.

I read this book Artemis by Andy Weir recently (the guy who wrote the Martian) and it mentioned a moon Internet, and it was like 8 seconds away from the earth Internet or something like that. However, and the book didn't mention it, but what if a computer could be constructed that could perform extremely large calculations, and it was cheaper to produce there? In the book, they used a lot of glass for decor, because the ingredients to manufacture it were byproducts of other manufacturing already present, but something like that could be possible in space.

I like to imagine a satellite orbiting earth, with a little factory onboard, and it would send out probes and repurpose all the space junk in orbit and convert it to energy or use it to build stuff.

A planet computer could be expanding itself in that same way, and even though the calculations' results might be delayed, that might be more effective.

If humans make it another couple hundred years, they're gonna get to start thinking and building that stuff. That'll be cool

Andy Weir also published Artemis in between The Martian and Project Hail Mary.

As a fellow ADHD-er, completely agree about reading conditions, like the environment and how well the book is suited to your tastes/mood, rather than an organizational system. The one place I've been able to read a book cover-to-cover in a single sitting was while backpacking. Found a comfy rock in shade, got into the Reading Zone, got through all of Andy Weir's "Artemis" that day.

That reminds me of ZAFO (Zero Attenuation Optical Fiber), a plot-devices in the book Artemis by Andy Weir.

> I was introduced to sci-fi last year and pretty much stuck to it throughout 2018.

If you're looking for additional science fiction suggestions:

1. American War by Omar El Akkad

2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

3. Artemis by Andy Weir

4. Daemon by Daniel Suarez

5. Old Man's War by John Scalzi

6. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

7. Red Rising series by Pierce Brown