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A Spark to Guide You Forward

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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I think if there is such a sub-genre as “cozy sci-fi”, Becky Chambers is one of it’s lead writers. A Closed and Common Orbit is the sequel to Becky Chambers debut novel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Even more than it’s predecessor, this book is more concerned with the interactions of it’s characters than with action or adventure. At the end of Small Angry Planet, the Wayfarer’s AI, Lovelace, “Lovey,” is damaged in an unprovoked attack. To save Lovey, she is downloaded into a body kit, giving her the appearance of being human. During this process, many of the […]

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5/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

Becky Chambers might be my new hero

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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Before I finished my last read, I started poking around in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, trying to pick my next read, when I noticed the page “A special note from Becky Chambers” all the way in the back. I assumed it would be an acknowledgement page or maybe a teaser for an upcoming book or even just a note to her fans, but instead, Chambers included a note to encourage aspiring writers not to give up.  The timing couldn’t have been better. I’ve been pretty down on my own writing for quite a […]

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5/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Delightful, feel-good space opera

A Closed and Common Orbit. by Becky Chambers

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A closed and common orbit is the sequel to The Long way to a Small Angry Planet, so…   A Closed and Common Orbit follows Lovelace the AI after she’s been downloaded into a kit resembling a human body. Pepper takes care of her and brings her back to her home planet. Lovelace changes her name to Sidra, a human-name, and tries to adjust to life with different senses in a strange place. She is no longer a ship with a camera in every room, she is a body and bodies don’t know what happens behind them. Interspersed in this […]

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3/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Sci-fi to make you cry (in a nice way)

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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Lovelace is an AI. She belongs on a ship, protecting and caring for its crew. But due to events in Becky Chambers’ first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, she finds herself instead in a synthetic body. To everyone else she looks perfectly human, but inside she’s struggling with her new circumstances, missing her old abilities, and feeling lost. Her guide through this transition is Pepper, an expert in all things tech, and someone who knows what it’s like not to be your average human. A Closed and Common Orbit alternates between Lovelace (who later takes a […]

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1/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

A genetic multiple and an artificial intelligence encased in a manufactured body walk into a bar . . .

A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) by Becky Chambers

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This is yet another review where I’m putting up the white flag. It’s been months since I finished it and for whatever reason I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to figure out what I want to say about it. So I’m just not going to say much at all and this will be more of a mini-review than a real one. I liked this book, but not as much as the first one. It’s really more of a companion novel to A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet than it is a straight sequel, though some characters cross from that book […]

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11/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:95 |

Not Firefly

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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This seems to be a divisive book and I can see why. I had two problems with it: one was a matter of taste, the other was a tension and storytelling problem. The book features a motley crew manning a spaceship. This is where the Firefly comparisons come in, and people that enjoy it seem to see the connection beyond that. And this is where the taste issue comes up, I love Firefly and its brand of humor and quirk. I did not think this book was funny and the characters that were obviously meant as comic relief just annoyed […]

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5/23/2017 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

Am I the only species in creation that doesn’t thrive on conflict?

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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I’m still not quite sure if I enjoyed this book or not. It’s fine, but for the large majority of the book I just thought it was OK. I feel almost guilty for saying that, because the book is just so nice, but that’s kind of all that it is. Ironically, I’ve been saying that I want light and fluffy fiction, nothing too deep or heavy, and yet when presented with one of the lightest and fluffiest books I’ve come across in a long while I’m left picking through the cotton candy and complaining about the lack of substance. In […]

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5/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

Yet another glowing review for this gem of a book.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers

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I was going to give this four stars because I really enjoyed myself while reading it, but I didn’t get THAT FEELING, you know? But then I had this one thought afterwards that completely reshaped my perspective about the whole book and now I have to give it five stars. But first some context. This has been an absurdly well-reviewed book here at CBR (and everywhere else), and it pretty much came out of nowhere. It has been compared frequently to both Star Trek (because of its optimistic vision of humanity’s future) and Firefly (because of the ragtag, underdog nature of […]

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5/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:34 |


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