Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3) in Around the Year in 52 Books

May 14, 2019 Trish rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: zsrc-2019-1-spring, science-fiction, aty-2019-trish, zzhugos-2019

So, in a lot of ways, the format of this is very similar to New York 2140: multiple perspectives, successive chapters following different characters, and in the end, the characters finally link together. Its just that Becky Chambers seems to tie it all together so much better. And manages to do so in a much tighter book.

Along with John Scalzi's Collapsing Empire series, Wayfarers is one of my favourite space opera series. ...more

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Aug 19, 2018 Ryan Mac rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Another character driven story in the same universe as the other Becky Chambers books. For those hoping for more stories about previous characters, you will be disappointed here--there is only a family connection that is briefly discussed. Still, even though very little happens in terms of plot, I did enjoy following these characters along. In many ways, even though most of the characters were adults, this felt like a coming of age story.

The Fleet are descendants of the last humans that left Ea ...more

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Jan 31, 2021 martha rated it really liked it

Shelves: speculative-fiction, audiobook, postcolonial-scifi, year-2021

I’d started this before and didn’t get too far, confused about how this connected to the other books in the series (barely) and how the different sections were supposed to relate to one another. What made the difference was reading other reviews here so I understood what I was looking at, ha. And yes, please, I was *definitely* in the mood for a set of loosely connected narratives set on the same long-haul multigenerational fleet of spaceships, in a society that’s the spiritual successor of Ursu ...more

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Apr 30, 2022 Nancy rated it liked it

Shelves: audio, science-fiction, fiction, 2022

Eh. Not much to say here. 2.5 bumped up to 3 because Rachel Dulude is a fantastic narrator. I mixed up all 3 female main characters and didn't feel this really had a cohesive story. I get what the author was going for but it didn't work for me. I liked the first 2 books much better, with A Closed and Common Orbit my favorite. I read this for a found family for a reading challenge and I don't think it really fits so will likely find something else for that prompt. The first two books fit really w ...more

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