Several years ago daughter was leaving for work when she smelled smoke. Dryer fire, her teenage son was asleep upstairs. If she'd left five minutes earlier. . .No one in the family leaves the house with appliances running any longer.

I'll look forward to reading it!

I read Translation State the day it appeared on my Kindle! Connie Willis's Road to Roswell appeared at almost the same time. Now I'm wishing for another surfeit of new books, or maybe I'll just read them again. Very different, but I did enjoy both.

Just saw on Facebook that CJ is going to have surgery for breast cancer. She sounds optimistic because it was found early and the treatment will not be as debilitating as that for the colon cancer she had a few years ago.

Haven't been here since forever. Read Translation State and liked it, especially how some topics from the previous books are expanded on.  Right after that I read Connie Willis's The Road to Roswell, in comparison a lighthearted romp that I wasn't quite ready for. Might try it again as a vacation read.