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To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers

4.21 · Rating details · 17,266 ratings · 3,034 reviews

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with differe ...more

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Apr 14, 2019 Emily (Books with Emily Fox) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019-releases, favorites

One of my newest favorite books.

Becky Chambers has a way with words that makes every book she writes feel like home. I was sucked into this story from the first sentence ( If you read nothing else we've sent home, please at least read this. Eum yes?!).

I've never read such a wholesome character driven sci-fi and I can't recommend this enough.

A must read! ...more

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Aug 28, 2019 Chelsea (chelseadolling reads) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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WOW, this reminded me so much of why I love sci-fi and why I need to make it a priority to read more of it. Becky Chambers has such a knack for writing heartbreakingly human, character driven stories. I loved this a whole heck of a lot.

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Oct 22, 2019 Nataliya rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: hugo-nebula, 2019-reads, 2020-reads

“We have found nothing you can sell. We have found nothing you can put to practical use. We have found no worlds that could be easily or ethically settled, were that end desired. We have satisfied nothing but curiosity, gained nothing but knowledge.”

You have to possess a specific mindset to like this novella. You need to be that person who, in the middle of an adventure story featuring a group of explorers would pause and think — wouldn’t it be nice that if instead of battles/ chases/ intrigue/ tension/ plot we just got a few hours of watching the explorers/ scientists/ astronauts just go about and do their day-to-day work, engage in whatever activities their mission was supposed to be about instead of being distracted by an adventure?¹ You need to be that person who can read a textbook before the course begins just because it’s fun learning new things². Well, I am that person, ergo I loved this book.

¹ I remember reading (and watching) The Martian and feeling vaguely annoyed that we did not get just a few extra minutes/chapters for seeing what the astronauts would be like just doing their normally scheduled mission instead of getting out of there and leaving Mark Watney to grow potatoes in all the loneliness.

² Every geography and biology textbook in my school life, ever. I ~~was~~ am a proud nerd.

To Be Taught, If Fortunate is that kind of story. It’s not about adventures or plot. It is basically like reading field notes of a research team. It is full of contemplative musings on the humans role in space, in studying extraterrestrial life, and the moral obligations and ethical implications that arise — while showing us the everyday life of a future crew of four scientists sent on a purely observational ecological mission to four extraterrestrial planets where they for a few years at a time study (and not interfere with) the local lifeforms. It’s observing, cataloguing, marveling, and finding fulfillment and happiness in the observer role, while at the same time building close ties with the few people around you.

Discoveries are made, unsettling news encountered, a few challenges threaten to fray mind and sanity. Some planets are a fascinating paradise, others a damp screeching hell. And then it is time to pack up and move on.

What is this Hugo-nominated novella about? Well, to me it all boiled down to a few ethical questions and themes.

First, it’s the importance of humility for humans, the avoidance of acting as a dominant, superior, conquering species — and instead focusing on respect and learning and observing for no other reason than knowledge. Not for terraforming, not for profit, not for entertainment — but for science. This is what’s owed to those who sent you on the mission, as this space mission is the result of the crowdfunding effort independent of governments and countries.

“I’m an observer, not a conqueror. I have no interest in changing other worlds to suit me. I choose the lighter touch: changing myself to suit them.”

Second, it’s the relationships and formation of bonds between the crewmates, the four people who are isolated from the rest of humanity for decades. Ariadne, Elena, Chikondi and Jack form their own family that transcends norms and conventions and definitions, where connections are important whether they are emotional or sexual or both. Becky Chambers excels at writing about human connections and adopted, chosen families — and this ability shines here as well.

“Because sometimes we go, and we try, and we suffer, and despite it all, we learn nothing. Sometimes we are left with more questions than when we started. Sometimes we do harm, despite our best efforts. We are human. We are fragile.”

Third, it’s the disconnection from the rest of humanity. While you and your crewmates are light years away from everyone else, while any news that reach you are decades out of date, while everyone you knew and loved will die as you are in space, while nothing that really matters to you due to the gap of time and distance is going on on the far-away Earth, do you strive to remain a part of humanity, do you continue to care, or do you focus on yourself and your new worlds leaving the troubles of the old Earth behind? Do you still owe anything to the old planet? Do you still need their guidance?

“What we want you to ask yourselves is this: what is space, to you? Is it a playground? A quarry? A flagpole? A classroom? A temple? Who do you believe should go, and for what purpose? Or should we go at all? Is the realm above the clouds immaterial to you, so long as satellites send messages and rocks don’t fall? Is human spaceflight a fool’s errand, a rich man’s fantasy, an unacceptable waste of life and metal? Are our methods grotesque to you, our ethics untenable? Are our hopes outdated? When I tell you of our life out here, do you cheer for us, or do you scoff?”

It’s a quiet story, slow and measured and very unhurried. Told in a voice of one of the crew members, Ariadne, it is full of wonder at the things that she and her crewmates are incredibly lucky and grateful to see. It is quietly emotional and wondrous and touching and yet subdued. Reading it to me was akin to actually inhabiting Ariadne’s world of travel and discovery and wonder, and at time frustration and depression and despair. It was really like experiencing a slice of life on the Lawki mission, the good and bad, the wondrous and the heartbreaking, the exciting and the mundane.

I enjoyed this calm and quiet field notes — or rather a letter in the firm of field notes — specifically for how contemplative it was. Because ultimately it’s hopeful, and chooses to see the best in us, and believes in our ability not only to choose the right thing but to want to choose it. Collaboration, knowledge, responsibility and kindness - these can be our beacons, and I love it for making me believe in that. (Even if, to be honest with you, I don’t agree with the ending — but that just likely says something unflattering about me.)

“Where we go from there is up to you.”

4.5 stars.
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Oct 29, 2019 Charlotte May rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi

I’m sad I didn’t love this as much as I wanted to 😔

“We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship - to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate.” We know full well that our planet and all it’s inhabitants are but a small part of this immense universe that surrounds us, and it is with humility and hope that we take this step.”

I love Becky Chambers. Her Wayfarers series had me utterly spellbound. But this one just didn’t do it for me. ...more

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3.5/5 stars

This may surprise you, but unlike The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, I actually enjoyed reading To Be Taught, If Fortunate.

Becky Chambers is most often known for her work on Wayfarers series, a space-opera series that many people have called the ultimate feel-good space opera or literary hugs. Admittedly, I haven’t finished reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, either I was in the wrong readin ...more

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Jan 03, 2021 carol. rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: my-library-kindle, female-lead, meh, sci-fi

A travelogue with frankly underdeveloped characters and a bonkers ending--and I don't mean in the Gideon the Ninth kind of way. No, I mean in the Tana French, authorial choice kind of way. A metaphor, in novella, for exploration, learning and weighing costs.

The set-up is that a team of four astronaut-scientists are on a long-term exploration mission from the Earth, with an agreed mission to explore four different targets and report back, engaging in a type of extended torpor between locations. T ...more

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Jun 23, 2019 Joanne Harris added it · review of another edition

Since I first read Joanna Russ' WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO... I've had a hole in my heart. This book healed it. This extraordinary novella proves that you don't have to write a long book to pack a big punch. Becky Chambers' writing gets better and better with everything she writes, and this is no exception. Every sentence is perfectly balanced without attracting unnecessary attention; characterization is subtle but effective; and the impact of the ending is everything I hoped it would be. A future sci- ...more

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Sep 20, 2019 Phrynne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is a beauty. A novella which packs twice the punch of the average full length novel. A story of hope and a better future. An ending which makes you want to cry. Wonderful.

I love well written sci fi and To Be Taught, If Fortunate is exactly that. It follows the experiences of four scientists/astronauts who are basically crowd funded by a future Earth to explore several previously unvisited planets. Time passes and eventually they lose contact with Earth. What should they do next?

I must admi ...more

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Aug 10, 2019 Emer (A Little Haze) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: cried-me-a-river, scifi-dystopian, adult-fiction, read2019, all-the-pretty-covers, reviewed, 5stars, books-owned-all-formats

Becky Chambers is a freaking genius. If you have any interest in speculative fiction about where we as a species could be headed then you really need to pick up any of her books.

'To Be Taught If Fortunate' is a short novella about longterm space mission to study four planets light years away from Earth. There are four members of the crew of the OCA spacecraft Merian; Ariadne O'Neill, Elena Quesada-Cruz, Jack Vo and Chikondi Daka. But instead of getting caught up in stereotypical space opera sty Becky Chambers is a freaking genius. If you have any interest in speculative fiction about where we as a species could be headed then you really need to pick up any of her books.

'To Be Taught If Fortunate' is a short novella about longterm space mission to study four planets light years away from Earth. There are four members of the crew of the OCA spacecraft Merian; Ariadne O'Neill, Elena Quesada-Cruz, Jack Vo and Chikondi Daka. But instead of getting caught up in stereotypical space opera style events this book takes the form of a message sent back to Earth from the viewpoint of Ariadne who is the flight engineer onboard. And in this message are the details of their exploratory and investigatory mission so far... But also it reveals so much about what it means to be human. It poses probing questions asking about the importance of scientific research and whether a mission seeking knowledge is truly relevant to us as a species.

Ariadne's message is split into four parts as the crew of the Merian visit four different planets: Aecor, Mirabilis, Opera and Votum. And on each planet we are treated to both easy to understand and incredibly fascinating speculative science as the crew engage in their information gathering and laboratory research. But we also get to delve into the psyches of these four people and how the mission affects each of them in different ways.

This book is truly brilliant. Everything feels so authentic that I almost believed that I was reading a real space report... But it's the humanity of the piece that really captured me. So much so that I found myself crying at the end of the book because there was just so much heart and feeling in it. It's a book about what it truly means to be a human and as a trained research scientist myself I was both deeply moved by and really emotionally connected with the hunger and thirst for knowledge that was illustrated in the book.

Highly recommended

five stars

As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organisation of one hundred and forty seven member states who represent almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet Earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship - to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate. We know full well that our planet and its inhabitants are but a small part of this immense universe that surrounds us, and it is with humility and hope that we take this step.
- Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim,
1977,
as recorded on the Voyager Golden Record.

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Sep 16, 2020 Mrinmayi rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: People who want to try something different & unique

Recommended to Mrinmayi by: Rue my good old friend

Shelves: ravenclaw-mc, fav-female-protagonist, sci-fi

The moment Mrin realized that she did not enjoy FANTASY her go-to genre BUT ended up liking this book...

This was me after reading this book

NO, I WON'T LET YOU GUYS KNOW THE PLOT OF THE BOOK!!!!
I forbid you all to look at the blurb!!!!
Just go into it blindly

This book was so atmospheric and fascinating !!!
Also, you DON'T have to be a science student to enjoy this
though you will enjoy it more if you are (Which is what happened to me🤗)
The various terms the author used were something I was familiar w ...more

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Aug 12, 2020 Holly rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-read, fantasy-science-fiction

3.5 stars

Well written, but this kind of felt like the result of a creative writing assignment. It's like someone gave the author a prompt of "write a novella where a small number of humans are visiting unknown planets/moons light years away" and this is what the author came up with. Don't get me wrong, I would give this an A if I was a teacher grading this. There's thought given to how humans would need to adjust to different conditions (gravity, light, etc), how they would attempt to identify a ...more

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Aug 31, 2019 Matthew Quann rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, pretty-short

Guys, if you haven't read any of Becky Chambers' uplifting solar punk (see her Hugo-award wining Wayfarers trilogy), then To Be Taught, If Fortunate is the perfect place to start. Stuffed into less than 200 pages, it is a compelling, intelligent, and deeply humanistic science-fiction yarn that is representative of what Chambers does best.

The story is told as a letter being sent back to Earth from Adriane, pilot of a OCA spaceship meant to categorize and study exoplanets. These four pilots t ...more

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Jun 18, 2019 Natasha Ngan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

THE MARTIAN meets INTERSTELLAR, this is high-concept speculative fic at its finest. Rendered with startling clarity, Chambers' latest offering is a short but fierce ode to humanity and all our reaches and flaws. Unputdownable. ...more

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Nov 11, 2019 K.J. Charles added it · review of another edition

Shelves: novella, sf

A terrific piece of specfic showing you don't need hostile aliens or laser shootouts to do terrifying. Ariadne and her three colleagues are sent on a long-term science mission into space which involves going into a kind of hibernation to get there before dying of old age--so a lot of time has passed on Earth before they wake up, and then they spend years on the planets they're studying. It's absolutely fascinating and immersive--the pictures of completely alien habitats, the amazing but constric ...more

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Sep 29, 2019 Bradley rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019-shelf, sci-fi

The good:

I honestly enjoyed the science bits and exploring the worlds. I kept thinking of Peter Watts' book, Starfish, where the people alter themselves for the harsh environment rather than the other way around. But unlike Peter's book, this is downright mild and doesn't go for the mental health issues. At least, it doesn't go for them in quite such a hardcore way.

The bad:

This is hard-SF, and while the cool focus is mostly on biology rather than physics, we still have to ignore quite a few thi ...more

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Nov 14, 2019 Dawn C rated it did not like it · review of another edition

“Hello, I hope you are listening and it’s okay even though I’m a space traveller I won’t exclude you by using fancy words coz I want to talk to ALL of you so I’m gonna talk like you’re all simpleminded idiots ok? So yesterday I found a stone and it was so pretty and this is the whole meaning of life, you know? I used to live somewhere that sounds pretty and today we’re having this for dinner and I find animals so fascinating especially insects because they are one thing and then they are another ...more

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Sep 25, 2019 Lata rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi-fantasy, x2019-read, auth-f

A lovely, hopeful book. A love letter to science, a meditation on the wonder of space and discovery, both without and within.

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Sep 23, 2019 Sara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, library-loan, novellas-and-short-stories

I’ll say right off the bat that I’m not a science fiction reader, and initially I struggled to get into this. There’s not much in the way of a traditional ‘story’ beyond following four explorers as they leave Earth to investigate specific planets. These planets are varied, some teeming with life, some none. All have differing environments too, and the book explores how we humans can ‘change’ to adapt to that environment - which was interesting, as well as the moral dilemma of interfering with li ...more

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Aug 01, 2020 Dennis rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Space exploration SF that sets its focus on science, biology in particular, instead of adventures on far away worlds.

This novella is written as an account of the survey mission the main character and her three fellow astronauts are on, sent back to Earth fifty years after they left the planet on their way to the four habitable worlds in orbit around the red dwarf star Zhenyi. All four worlds (Aecor, Mirabilis, Opera and Votum) are either known or suspected to harbour life. Ariadne and her collea ...more

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Oct 16, 2019 Evelina | AvalinahsBooks rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-of-2019, literary, fiction, sci-fi, short-reads

Sigh. This is a case of managing your expectations. If you are coming into this book expecting what you've already read by Becky Chambers, well... Maybe don't read it (or don't have those expectations).

This book is basically a big metaphor. I would call it literary, not the typical scifi. Not a bad thing, and in another context on its own, I would have enjoyed it. But that's not what I was expecting. Not the author's fault at all! But I feel like this might happen to a lot of fans when it comes ...more

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Mar 21, 2020 April (Aprilius Maximus) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, favourites

“It is difficult to give thought to the stars when the ground is swallowing you up.”
★★★★.5

representation: queer characters, asexual rep, trans rep, polyamorous relationship, characters of colour (Mexican and Zambian).

[trigger warnings are listed at the bottom of this review and may contain spoilers]

A lovely, quiet novella that is quite thought-provoking and packs quite a punch. Becky Chambers is a master at writing heartbreakingly human stories that just happen to be set in space.

“I kno ...more

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Sep 04, 2019 Emma rated it liked it

This was fascinating and a very engaging concept. It did not charm or entertain in the same way the Wayfarers did, but I did enjoy it.

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Apr 10, 2020 Kayla Dawn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-books

I desperately need more of this

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Mar 08, 2020 Justine rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-tbr-challenge, 2020-read, novella

2.5 stars

I am in the minority on this one, but I did not care for this at all. I loved all of the Wayfarer books, and this novella was certainly well written, but the ending just felt so contrived and unrealistic that I can't move past that.

I liked the idea of a long-term scientific mission of exploration, with significant chunks of time spent on each planet to catalogue all the amazing finds. I liked the idea that the mission was essentially funded by a bunch of interested individuals after go ...more

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Mar 14, 2020 Kaitlin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: booktubesff-2020

I really enjoyed this read and I'm glad I finally got around to it as it's a shortlisted item on the #Booktubesff awards. I know I've loved all of Becky Chambers' other work, but as this is the first short by her I hoped I'd enjoy this one too, and it did not disappoint!

This story tells the tale of 4 astronauts (Ariadne being the main character) and their journey to four planets to discover more about them. The project is a crowdfunded expedition which is a big factor in the mentality of the cr ...more

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Feb 01, 2020 Michael Finocchiaro rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: american-21st-c, fiction, novellas, sci-fi, dystopian

I loved Becky Chambers’ trilogy and was hoping for more of the name with this one. I enjoyed the new worlds and the geeky stuff, but I was disappointed that it was so short! There was enough interesting here to have been a longer story and I was frustrated by this. I really wanted more detail about the characters and their voyage. I would recommend reading her trilogy before reading this one.

I think that the thing that I learned that was perhaps most interesting was the "handedness" of our genes ...more

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May 09, 2020 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read2020, 2020-laser, novella, sci-fi-fantasy

To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers is one of the books I bought since all the stay at home orders (support your local bookstores through bookshop.org) - it is novella length and is about a small crew of scientists doing science on four different exoplanets, using somaforming to adapt to the new environments. I loved the info at the end about the science this is based on (and the scientist the author works with most often.)

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Sep 05, 2019 Shaun Hutchinson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This was just such a lovely novella about everything. I'd be laying if I said it didn't leave me wanting more, but isn't that what a good book is supposed to do? ...more

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Apr 23, 2020 Allison Hurd rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtqia-mc, fem-author, scifi

So, I think Becky Chambers is brilliant at finding the kindness in collective humanity and making it interesting, and that her ability to imagine alien life is phenomenal. But I don't think she played to her strengths here.

CONTENT WARNINGS: (view spoiler)

Things I liked:

-The description of the worlds. I think it's inarguable that the worlds she's imagined are so cool and fascinating. The imaginative bits are great.

-Some of the sci ...more

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Sep 08, 2019 Trike rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, read-in-2019, 2019-s-l-laser

While I feel the ending of this novella is a bit of a cop-out (view spoiler), I fully acknowledge that viewpoint comes from my own particular bias toward life due to who I am and my generation. Chambers is different from me in many important ways, some of which are fundamental, so I get that her solutions While I feel the ending of this novella is a bit of a cop-out (view spoiler), I fully acknowledge that viewpoint comes from my own particular bias toward life due to who I am and my generation. Chambers is different from me in many important ways, some of which are fundamental, so I get that her solutions would not be my solutions.

That said, I liked this novella fine, which features something I haven’t read in a while, namely exploration porn. It’s all about seeking new life on strange new worlds, and I’m all about that. (view spoiler)

The basic idea here is similar to James Blish’s The Seedling Stars, where instead of terraforming planets to suit humans, instead we physioform humans to suit planets. In the Blish stories it’s done for colonization purposes and the changes are permanent. Here it’s for temporary exploration. They alter their bodies for a few years then go on to the next planet. It’s a cool idea, if not entirely original.

Chambers’ standard setting of people working together and getting along well while being competent professionals is on full display here. That seems utopian to me, and decidedly Science Fictional, but it’s a nice thing to consider. I haven’t minded it in her other three books and I don’t mind it here.

One thing that does bug me is the Super Science of the ship. The Merian is over 50 years old when the story begins, and then over a period of many years they travel to four planets, spending numerous years on each, yet nothing ever breaks or wears out. I went to the store the other day and my year-old car refused to shift from Park into Drive. I know it’s not the focus of the story, but it’s an important aspect that would add verisimilitude.

All in all this is a pleasant SF tale, but I can only give it 2 stars due to the things I wasn’t buying. I definitely liked Chambers’ other books better. ...more

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Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which currently includes The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her most ...more

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