![]() ![]() She doesn’t bombard you with longwinded chunks of backstory, instead your knowledge of the GC sort of grows organically as you read a news feed here, an exchange between characters there. Chambers’ world-building is elegantly done. ![]() It’s well-written and never clunky, and sometimes it’s just downright hilarious. They all get good stories and some great lines and I defy you not to love them too. I am in love with them all: Sissix the super-affectionate pilot kooky Kizzy the ‘mech tech’ and her best-friend and partner-in-crime Jenks the ‘comp tech’ Dr Chef the ship’s doctor and – you guessed it – chef the big blue furry enigma that is Ohan the OCD Corbin (Becky Chambers writes so well that I ended up loving Corbin just as much as the rest of the crew – no easy feat) noobie Rosemary voice of reason and captain of the ship Ashby and the adorable, sentient AI Lovelace. ![]() Their job is to ‘punch’ holes through space, creating hyperspace tunnels between planets for space traffic, but this book is all about the soft and gooey centre: this crew is a family, with all the banter and squabbling and love that that entails. The pick-n-mix crew of lovable characters that live and work together aboard the Wayfarer, (think Farscape, Firefly and Star Trek: Voyager). ![]() (Thanks to the worst night’s sleep I’ve had in, like, forever, this will be brief).ħ things to love about The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet: ![]()
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