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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
(Wayfarers #4)
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With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop.
At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul space ...more
At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul space ...more
ebook, 336 pages
Expected publication:
February 16th 2021
by Harper Voyager
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Sep 05, 2020
Emily (Books with Emily Fox)
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
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2021 can't arrive soon enough!!
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May 16, 2020
Charlotte May
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Oh, dear. It's me screeching, obviously. ...more
Oh, dear. It's me screeching, obviously. ...more

Feb 21, 2020
Tyler
marked it as to-read
Please please please let this story bring us back to our first spaceborn crew from book 1.

And so with this novel Becky Chambers completes her Wayfarers quartet... and honestly, it was the perfect ending. It’s a book that manages to feel incredibly expansive with its cast of characters, but also beautifully intimate.
If you haven’t read any of the Wayfarers novels before now I completely recommend that you rectify that promptly. Each book is set in the same universe but have their own unique storyline so technically can be enjoyed in any order.
As with any Chambers’ novel the emphasis ...more
If you haven’t read any of the Wayfarers novels before now I completely recommend that you rectify that promptly. Each book is set in the same universe but have their own unique storyline so technically can be enjoyed in any order.
As with any Chambers’ novel the emphasis ...more

[Gifted]
This was fascinating. It's definitely one for the zoologists out there - there aren't any human characters for most of the story. Instead, four different alien species with incredibly different physiologies are stuck in a small habitat dome together with no communications for a week. All of them have their own desperate reasons for leaving as quickly as possible, but despite their impatience they find themselves fascinated by the differences and similarities between each other's bodies a ...more
This was fascinating. It's definitely one for the zoologists out there - there aren't any human characters for most of the story. Instead, four different alien species with incredibly different physiologies are stuck in a small habitat dome together with no communications for a week. All of them have their own desperate reasons for leaving as quickly as possible, but despite their impatience they find themselves fascinated by the differences and similarities between each other's bodies a ...more

Nov 07, 2019
La La
marked it as arc-and-review-tbr
I AM UNCONTROLLABLY HAPPY! 😍😍😍

Dec 13, 2020
Katy
rated it
it was amazing
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Once again Becky Chambers has restored my faith in humanity. This novel feels like the perfect remedy to the shit show that was 2020 and honestly could not have come at a more perfect time. Her writing has this captivating quality that takes you in it's arms and makes you feel like everything is going to be okay with the world.
The Galaxy and The Ground Within is a very quiet yet profound novel and personally I think it's such a refreshing change from a lot of the high octane sci-fi thillers we ...more
The Galaxy and The Ground Within is a very quiet yet profound novel and personally I think it's such a refreshing change from a lot of the high octane sci-fi thillers we ...more

May 26, 2020
Taylor
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Becky Chamber: [announces a fourth Wayfarers book]
Me:
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Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.
This book is set on Gora, basically a planet which has the sole purpose of being a waiting place for those ships that will enter into the next wormhole and have to wait for authorization for such We first meet Ouloo and Tupo, a Laru mother and her teenager son, who have an establishment there for those who are waiting. They will receive three guests on the same day: Speaker, an Akarak, Roveg, a Quelim and Ca ...more
This book is set on Gora, basically a planet which has the sole purpose of being a waiting place for those ships that will enter into the next wormhole and have to wait for authorization for such We first meet Ouloo and Tupo, a Laru mother and her teenager son, who have an establishment there for those who are waiting. They will receive three guests on the same day: Speaker, an Akarak, Roveg, a Quelim and Ca ...more

YES YES YESSSSSSSS THERE'S GONNA BE A 4TH BOOK
..... oh *stares lovingly at the cover* ...more
..... oh *stares lovingly at the cover* ...more

May 15, 2020
Ren (A Bookish Balance)
marked it as 2021-most-anticipated
Why did I not know this was a thing? 😭

"Sometimes things were just too broken for even the cleverest of workarounds."
2.5 rounded up.
Set on Gora, the planetary equivalent of a rest area, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within follows five characters stuck together for a few days after an orbital accident around the planet that grounds the ships. Among these characters is Pei, Ashby's partner from the first book, as well as two Laru, a Quelin and an Akarak. I was particularly interested to see the Akarak character as this was species was on ...more
2.5 rounded up.
Set on Gora, the planetary equivalent of a rest area, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within follows five characters stuck together for a few days after an orbital accident around the planet that grounds the ships. Among these characters is Pei, Ashby's partner from the first book, as well as two Laru, a Quelin and an Akarak. I was particularly interested to see the Akarak character as this was species was on ...more

Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton and Netgalley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyway.
If there is one series that I will always praise highly it has to be the Wayfarers series. Becky Chambers has found a unique way to look at people's lifes in a science-fiction setting and manages to play with your heartstrings.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within does this well. I'll be honest and say that I was somewhat hesitant about this book as I started. ...more
If there is one series that I will always praise highly it has to be the Wayfarers series. Becky Chambers has found a unique way to look at people's lifes in a science-fiction setting and manages to play with your heartstrings.
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within does this well. I'll be honest and say that I was somewhat hesitant about this book as I started. ...more

No surprise there.
Yet another beautiful story. I really wish we could have more of this universe. 10 books minimum would make me happy.
This one is closer to the first book in the series : we've got a groupe of people, stuck somewhere for a period of time. They try to deal with their personal stuff while also getting to know each others and helping one another. The difference is that in the first book the crew knew what they were getting into, they knew each others and had knowingly decided to ta ...more
Yet another beautiful story. I really wish we could have more of this universe. 10 books minimum would make me happy.
This one is closer to the first book in the series : we've got a groupe of people, stuck somewhere for a period of time. They try to deal with their personal stuff while also getting to know each others and helping one another. The difference is that in the first book the crew knew what they were getting into, they knew each others and had knowingly decided to ta ...more

The final Wayfarers book – which seems a strange thing in itself, given this always felt much more a setting than a series, even if this volume does resolve one gently dangling plot thread from the first of them, The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet. And given the timing – it's set to come out 11 months after the Event – I'm inevitably curious about whether the ways in which it mirrors lockdown were a direct response, emphasised in late revisions, or sheer coincidence. The setting is a small fac
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May 23, 2020
Isabelle
marked it as to-read
IT HAS A TITLE!!!! \o/

Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Voyager for providing an E-ARC for review!!
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is the fourth and final book in author Becky Chambers’ acclaimed science fiction series Wayfarers. The book shows us 4 main characters’ points of view, all from “alien” species (there is no human character with a point of view in this book, as there were in previous novels in the series), as they get to know each other while dealing with an inconvenient situation that is placing stress ...more
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is the fourth and final book in author Becky Chambers’ acclaimed science fiction series Wayfarers. The book shows us 4 main characters’ points of view, all from “alien” species (there is no human character with a point of view in this book, as there were in previous novels in the series), as they get to know each other while dealing with an inconvenient situation that is placing stress ...more

Becky does it again!
Becky Chambers is one of the best writers currently on the block and with this novel she perfectly brings to a close one of the best series of the decade. One of this authors greatest strengths has always been the creation and narration of alien characters. She doesn't just give upright bipeds weird looking faces but she really goes to town with all the ways alien life might be different and the ways in which this might affect their interaction with the world and with each ot ...more
Becky Chambers is one of the best writers currently on the block and with this novel she perfectly brings to a close one of the best series of the decade. One of this authors greatest strengths has always been the creation and narration of alien characters. She doesn't just give upright bipeds weird looking faces but she really goes to town with all the ways alien life might be different and the ways in which this might affect their interaction with the world and with each ot ...more

Nov 16, 2020
Caitlin Gutilla
marked it as to-read
I did not realize there was a fourth book. BRUH. 2021 COME TO MEEEEEE

15/9/20
I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS HAPPENED BUT WE HAVE A COVER!!!!
AND IT'S AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE OTHERS
OFC I'M TALKING ABOUT THE UK EDITIONS
SORRY NOT SORRY THE US ONES ARE KINDA UGLY
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WHEN DID THIS GET A TITLE omg ...more
I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS HAPPENED BUT WE HAVE A COVER!!!!
AND IT'S AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE OTHERS
OFC I'M TALKING ABOUT THE UK EDITIONS
SORRY NOT SORRY THE US ONES ARE KINDA UGLY
***
WHEN DID THIS GET A TITLE omg ...more

Jun 01, 2020
ella
marked it as to-read
has this just made my day? why yes it has

Jul 01, 2020
Bastiaan Spijkman
marked it as to-read
Today I found out the next book has a title. Today is a good day!!!!

I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!
...more

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC.
I've read all of the Becky Chambers books in this series, and this is apparently the last one - if the author's final note at the end is anything to go by. It surprised me, quite frankly - it's the kind of series that could go on indefinitely. But I respect her need for a change/break.
This is the most memorable of the books in the series that I've read, apart from the first one. It's very much still "cozy" sci-fi - nothing is too stressful, ever ...more
I've read all of the Becky Chambers books in this series, and this is apparently the last one - if the author's final note at the end is anything to go by. It surprised me, quite frankly - it's the kind of series that could go on indefinitely. But I respect her need for a change/break.
This is the most memorable of the books in the series that I've read, apart from the first one. It's very much still "cozy" sci-fi - nothing is too stressful, ever ...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
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