Status Updates From To Be Taught, If Fortunate

I refuse to believe that life on other planets doesn't build cities and machines.

Animals on earth build cities and machines.

My friend told me the science was gonna piss me off but good gd I was NOT prepared

This is like vastly overestimating the ecological impact of like 4 people and a space ship building a house

The thing about Becky Chambers that makes me nuts is: the writing itself is fine.

The writing is arguably good.

But Chambers is writing predominantly scifi.

And if your foundational science in your science fiction is inaccurate and those inaccuracies are not firmly established as part of the world you're writing, it drags the entire experience of the story down.

Chambers science is bad.