![]() Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. After centuries spent wandering empty space, their descendants were eventually accepted by the well-established species that govern the Milky Way.īut that was long ago. Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among the stars. The characters in this, like the first, drive this story, and the ending is superb. It shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and the resilient. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it’s anything but empty.Īnd we round it off with Record of a Spaceborn Few, while tenuously linked to the first, book three gives us more universe-building and greater understanding of the consequences of Earth and what happened, the consequences of decisions we make, and how we always long for a home. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. She’s never felt so alone.īut she’s not alone, not really. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. The second book, A Closed and Common Orbit, picks up not long after the end of book one, and follows the ‘ship’ as she navigates a body and world that should never have been hers, about finding your place in that world, your… fit – without limits. They’ll earn enough money to live comfortably for years… if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful.īut Rosemary isn’t the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed. Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful – exactly what Rosemary wants. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. The ship, which has seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past.īut Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn’t expecting much. It about discovering who you are in a universe so big it makes you feel small… but in the ‘smallness’ is where you find a truth, your essential truth. It’s about love and acceptance, hope and freedom and goodness. It’s a story about friendship, at its core, about what we’ll do for those we love. Set off-world, and taking place mostly on a ship that is somewhat sentient, this book captures all that is right with character-driven storytelling that leaves you feeling… hugged by its end. It was described to me as: ‘a hug in book form’ – and they weren’t wrong. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planetis the first in the series, and is probably my favourite of the three. ![]() Waxing lyrical about all of the stories would make this post super long, so I’ll keep to the blurbs for books two and three and wax lyrical about the first. Bought the second and third pretty damn quickly. I’m not a huge reader of sci-fi, especially ‘hard’ sci-fi, but I picked up the first book in the Wayfarer’s series by Becky Chambers’ on the recommendation of a friend. ![]() My reading for pleasure this year, while mostly fantasy and grimdark, was interrupted by some sci-fi. On the second day of Festivus, your pimpus brought to you, a sci-fi trilogy that… something-something… something… Festivus! (Look, the idea was there, the execution just sucked.
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