Earlier this year narfna posted her review of Record of a Spaceborn Few and in the comments she assured me that even less happens in this third installment of the Wayfarers series. I was delighted. It is generally acknowledged that science fiction takes our current major concerns and conflicts and sets them in the future, usually a more scientifically advanced future. Becky Chambers tweaks that a bit by having her characters preoccupied with the same minutia that preoccupies us all – our relationships, our work, our […]
By the stars, we hope
Bingo Square: Listicles. (From this list. Bonus points for telling me Morgan Matson has a new book out too.) The last humans to leave Earth when the planet was dying are known as Exodans. They were carried away by the Fleet, a large group of spacecrafts able to sustain their lives for centuries, until they could find a habitable planet on which to settle. Instead, they found alien life, and were eventually welcomed into the Galactic Commons – a sort of alien UN. Now able […]
“From the stars, came the ground. From the ground, we stood. To the ground, we return.”
These books are so good. This one was the slowest to get started, but it finished up just as poignant as the other two. For those of you who haven’t read the first two books, first of all you probably should, but know that they aren’t sci-fi adventure books in the classic sense. They are slow burn character studies, for the most part. Interesting things do happen, but unlike a lot of sf, they aren’t driven by their plot. The first book does have the […]
“I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.” (CBR10Bingo)
Science Fiction is one of the genres that grew on me over time. I find myself drawn more to the space-based versions, books like the Red Rising trilogy, The Martian, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Sparrow, and Children of God have been favorites over the years. There’s something about the exploration and survival stories that are part of the genre that work for me. I became particularly interested in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet when I heard it described as a […]