In her book The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers introduces us to the crew of the Wayfarer. The Wayfarer is a ship that installs the gates that enable ftl travel for the various species of the galaxy. The crew of the Wayfarer is a mixed bag of humans, aliens, and one AI and the story comes to us from everyone’s point of view. Overall this is the tale of the Wayfarer’s voyage to a small planet towards the galaxies core with the goal of providing it with a gate. The addition is sought for political and commercial reasons and that fact sort of informs the story but it is incidental. The real focus is the journey and the beings undertaking the journey. There are episodes of excitement, passing visits to familiar places, unfortunate personal discoveries, a quest for personhood, and more. The book shines in its switching viewpoints and world building.
I would recommend this book to anyone with a love of descriptive, character-drive, SF.
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