What to read this weekend: Celestial Lights and If Destruction Be Our Lot - Engadget

Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend Cecile Pin's Celestial Lights and the new Image Comics series, If Destruction Be Our Lot. Another melancholic narrative about love, loss and the consequences of human ambition, with space as the backdrop? Oops, I might have a type. Cecile Pin's Celestial Lights is a short and contemplative novel about Oliver Ines, or Ollie, a man who has always been drawn to the stars and is one day chosen to lead a 10-year mission to one of Jupiter's moons, Europa. It hops through time, following Ollie's memories across his life and weaving in logs from the mission. While space exploration is part of it, this isn't a book to grab if you're looking for excitement and adventure. Celestial Lights is, as the blurb explains, "A portrait of a complicated man and a breathtaking tale of memory, personal choices, and the relationships that define us." The first issue of this series came out at the beginning of the month, and oh does it feel like the start of something really, really great. The main character is, absurdly, an Abraham Lincoln robot whose purpose appears to be regurgitating quotes said by the 16th president of the US. He's one