“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.” I later learned part of the problem might be that it’s hard to follow along on audio book. This book is set within the same universe as the previous two, both literally and with the characters alluded to, so it feels very familiar. Among them are a mother, a young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, a man searching for a place to belong, and an archivist, who ensures no one’s story is forgotten.

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Becky Chambers. She was just doing what the soldier next to her was doing, who was doing what the soldier next to her was doing, and so on and so on.

But the book is actually what the title says, 'The record of a spaceborn few'. Season 1 Season 2. What is the price of sustaining their carefully balanced way of life—and is it worth saving at all?A young apprentice, a lifelong spacer with young children, a planet-raised traveler, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, and an Archivist whose mission is to ensure no one’s story is forgotten, wrestle with these profound universal questions. Because the virus is such a part of this species, they go by “they” and “us” and “we” — all plural.

Sunday Times bestselling author Becky Chambers returns to the Galactic Commons in the final installment in her award-winning and critically acclaimed Wayfarers series. I really like the point you make about Chambers not telling the reader what to think, but rather letting readers decide for themselves. Her first book won the Library Journal’s Best SFF of 2016. Sunday Times bestselling author Becky Chambers returns to the Galactic Commons in the final installment in her award-winning and critically acclaimed Wayfarers series.

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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others.

Enter Rosemary, a new clerk for the ship to keep their paperwork straight and who speaks a few different languages.

It’s a good novel, with plenty of depth but you can see why the author thanks one of her two editors for help “getting out of the weeds”. I didn’t listen to the audio book, but a few book clubbers often do. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. And what is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination?Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. Did you think it was worth it?Yes! This item will be released on February 16, 2021. Perhaps it’s because they are dealing with other ‘species’ people seem to be more accepting of differences?

Very good, but not quite up to the stunning excellence of a long way to a small angry planet and the tension implicit in a closed and common orbit. However although it follows on from the end of book one it is almost a stand alone in its own right with a whole load of new and exciting characters.

I love that her world accepts gay relationships freely and that sex work is treated as a true calling.