Eh, maybe? It's part of the fantasy-world-is-real trope. A spiritual successor to Narnia, but with adult characters. Or a predecessor to something like The Magicians. If you like these sorts of books, where the real world is part of the setting, then it may appeal. It's almost Isekai.

Honestly though, I've forgotten most of it. It's a "read once" book.

Read "Fred the Vampire Accountant" instead ;)

Hey now, I actually loved the back third of that book ;)

Cat doesn't do ebooks ;)

Create a TV Tropes page for it and it'll live forever as Canadian Warehouse Sci-Fi.

Could sort of just go through this list and see what fits haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_TV_and_radio_shows_produced_in_Canada#Live_action_science_fiction_television_drama_series

My gawd, you've entirely ruined my enjoyment of this cucumber.

This is barely a joke. There are real sets like this.https://www.electronicbeats.net/sleepover-drone-is-the-ambient-rave-that-wants-to-put-you-to-sleep/

This is one of my favourites: https://phase47.bandcamp.com/album/tf

I can haz book?

Neufeld's von Braun book is great! It doesn't pull any ethical punches -- it's almost clinical in the treatment of his early career opportunism within the Nazi regime.

The bottom shelves are dedicated more to rocket science than human spaceflight, generally, which is why I don't have Hadfield's book. I met him once though. I did grad school in Planetary Science and got to meet quite a few astronauts and have a few beers.

Wavey line is rebar -- the radar reflections take the shape of hyperbola as you pass over them. Bottom of the concrete is just below the rebar (those hyperbola overprint it a bit, so it's harder to see). Then it's crushed rock fill (probably limestone) until the two metre mark.

I really loved things like Eros station docks in The Expanse. So yeah it fits this vibe haha. :)

Forward slash doesn't throw a mental syntax error? ;)

https://numerical.recipes/

The current version is in C++

But if you check the link above, the older C and Fortran editions are free to read. This is the gold standard for numerical algorithms and scientific computing, without getting into things like GPUs and such.