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Questions about Modernity and Ways of Life – But in Space

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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While Becky Chambers has already explained the circumstances of the descendants of Earth in broad strokes in her previous two Wayfarer novels, in this third novel, she shifts her attention to the remaining human fleet.  When Earth was on the brink of collapse, some people with resources started by colonizing planets and moons in the Solar System such as Mars.  Those left behind eventually had to deconstruct the cities and sky scrapers, and use those resources to create a fleet for the last of humanity to escape.  They completely changed their approach to life, realizing that warfare and competition had […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:73 |

Choice, Purpose and Design

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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While A Closed and Common Orbit deals with the aftermath of the events The Long Way to Small, Angry Planet, it can be read independently.  The novel alternates between the view points of two characters.  Lovelace/Sidra’s perspective takes place directly after the other novel, and Jane’s chapters take place about 20 years prior, and explore how she ended up escaping a planet where she was genetically engineered for one specific function/job.  This isn’t a spoiler since Pepper was introduced in the previous novel as a friend of one of the main crew members and it had alluded to her past.  […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:62 |

“I’m writing to you in the hope that we will not be the last”

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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Bingo square: Travel Ariadne O’Neill is an astronaut on an ecological survey of new worlds. First Aecor, then Mirabilis, Opera and finally Votum, before returning to Earth. She and her colleagues, Chikondi, Jack, and Elena, are able to travel such long distances thanks to torpor (basically cryo-sleep), where their bodies will keep ageing, just not as quickly as if they were awake. And their bodies are readied for their new environments during torpor, via a revolutionary method known as somaforming. They are given supplementations to their biology, to further withstand radiation, changes in gravity, lack of sunlight, etc. All of […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

“She was glad to have met someone who liked to read.” (Double Bingo)

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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#CBR11 Bingo: Cannonballer Says (recommended by Carriejay, faintingviolet, emmalita, dAvid, tillie, badkittyuno and Narfna, among others) Official book description: Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together. Last year, for Cannonball Bingo, I chose one of the books […]

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7/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Space Road Trip!

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

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Bingo Square: Travel It took me forever and more positive reviews than I can cite but I finally read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.  I generally read more fantasy than sci-fi but I’ve been overdoing the fantasy lately, and needed to switch things up.  And what better than CBR11 Book Bingo to inspire actual reviewing! I know as long as the review is written between 1 July and 31 October, it counts, but considering that I’ve only reviewed one whole book this year, back in February, I figured I’d only use books read June onward since that […]

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7/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

“Are we going for an anchor or a compass? A memory to ground you, or a spark to guide you forward?”

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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In early April I made the choice to put my limited free time (so, so limited in late March and early April) into a complete rewatch of Game of Thrones before the series came back for its final series. I also picked up and put down two different books earlier this month, just not feeling any of them. When it was time to travel for Easter, with a total of four flights, I reached for a sure-fire winner: A Closed and Common Orbit. I loved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet last summer and was excited to see […]

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4/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

A Long and Complicated Read

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

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I’ve just finished this book, having bumped it way up my TBR list based on a review I read on here a short while ago.  On the surface, it’s an engaging story about a bunch of misfit species on a space ship that tunnels wormholes in space to help faster interstellar travel.    Our erstwhile captain is given a lucrative contract to build a new tunnel near a new planet, which has been taken over by an extremely war-like species that somehow are now part of the greater space coalition.    I’m a bit woolly on that bit to be […]

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1/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

It’s mid-January, how am I already so far behind?

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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The problem with being able to listen to audiobooks at my new job is that I read many more books and thus am already so far behind in reviews. Reading is so much easier than writing! Anyway, I decided to start my year out with a book I was fairly certain would be great. Spoiler alert: It was super great! Becky Chambers is the best and I will read whatever she writes because I want to live in her world for as long as possible with whichever characters she’s chosen. You don’t need to have read her other two books […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |


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