Simon Jimenez is criminally underrated and I’m annoyed about it! The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez’s debut novel, is set many centuries from now, when humanity has established life on various planets and on different bases, traveling the stars. Many planet-bound people simply provide resources for the rest of the universe, companies buying and selling what …
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Book Review | The Stars Too Fondly
I’m obsessed with space travel stories these days. Blame (or thank) Spock. In The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton, Cleo and her three best friends have grown up with the knowledge that Earth is pretty much a lost cause. Climate change is ravaging the planet, and there isn’t much to do now but wait …
Book Review | The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
I don’t want this series to be over! The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is the final installment in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series. We find ourselves on the planet Gora, a rather inhospitable place with no native life. It serves merely as a sort of interplanetary truck stop, now that the Galactic Commons has set …
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Book Review | Record of a Spaceborn Few
I’m making such good time with this series! In Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, the third standalone installment in the Wayfarers series, we follow a group of humans living on a spaceship. They’re from the Exodus Fleet, the descendants of the last humans to have left Earth after the planet’s environmental collapse. …
Book Review | A Closed and Common Orbit
I devoured this audiobook in two days. This is the opposite of a problem. In A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, the AI program known as Lovelace faces a new experience when she’s placed into a humanoid body after total system shutdown and reboot. So she finds her way off the ship and …
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