A Buzz by Jacob Lightman

In Jacob Lightman’s inventive A Buzz, a young commander named Jaway leads his team on an assignment to unite the rest of the country under an advanced nation called The Land, for an innovative work of science fiction set in South America. Lightman’s narrative largely focuses on episodic adventures, as opposed to wider plot arcs or conflicts, but the innovative world he’s created is thoroughly enveloping. Readers looking for elaborately detailed world-building, intriguing futuristic tech, and sci-fi universes with a more upbeat tone will be quickly drawn into this creative work of speculative fiction.