“To Be Taught, If Fortunate” by Becky Chambers (2019)

“If you read nothing else we’ve sent home, please at least read this.”

It’s a shame that I’m unlikely to witness much space travel in my lifetime. There is a lot of talk about returning to the moon and then heading on to Mars – and perhaps beyond – and with any luck I’ll get to see some of that, but there are more pressing matters to deal with here on Earth that we need to sort first. The space race seems so long ago. But what if, in some advanced future, we get the hang of the technology requir...