[Bob Kontak]

I liked Billiard Ball by Asimov. Short story.

Read 2001 several times. I think I felt I could understand the ending of the movie better. Decent read. On the upside there was not a 15 minute passage of Bowman traveling into the monolith.

Just saying and off topic, Forrest Gump was also an astronaut in the novel. He was the only person who could load in an alternate re-entry code into the computer fast enough. Travels with a monkey. Hilarious.

Edit: Jeez, I see you asked for recent. Never mind.