Made for Love

I found this book because of the HBO series. It took a few pages to get used to the author's writing style, which is highly stylized. But once I got used to it, I though this book was fantastic. There were lines that actually made me laugh out loud. The dialogus is sometimes absurdly unrealistic - as I said, the author has a very stylized writing style - but the substance of what was said was so funny and entertaining that I didn't mind it. I liked how the book managed to be both dark and hopeful. The chracters are strange, and I think the author pulls of a difficult feat of showing the humor in their strangeness while still being deeply empathetic. As the title of this book suggests, every character (well, except perhaps the villain, of course) are presented as being deserving of love, even if they themselves aren't always capable of showing love or showing love in socially acceptable ways, and that love looks different for different people. (And somtimes, they don't even need love - just companionship, understanding and/or honesty, and that's okay, too.) I also liked that the book takes on the questions of love and free will without being pedantic. I will note that there are significant variations between the book and its adaptation on HBO - the show delves much more into the actual technology. The book is definitely on the softer sci fi side, but I think the show is a very logical expansion of the book and manages to capture the book's whacky and darkly humorous tone.