A Choice of Gods

How it reads

A Choice of Gods is science fiction (philosophical science fiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in the future, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are faith, nature and identity. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 186 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.