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This is a book difficult to review. Not in its parts, I mean, it has a plot, and an interesting one, and the characters are profound and very well written. Interaction between them is credible, the same as the dialogues. Chambers is a naturally gifted storyteller, and it shows. There's not much action, though, and that can make the reading a little boring. Where's then the difficulty? The thing is, this book, as is often the case with Chambers, has a heart. A spark of something unexplainable, a
A lovely, hopeful book. A love letter to science, a meditation on the wonder of space and discovery, both without and within.
A terrific piece of specfic showing you don't need hostile aliens or laser shootouts to do terrifying. Ariadne and her three colleagues are sent on a long-term science mission into space which involves going into a kind of hibernation to get there before dying of old age--so a lot of time has passed on Earth before they wake up, and then they spend years on the planets they're studying. It's absolutely fascinating and immersive--the pictures of completely alien habitats, the amazing but constric...
One of my newest favorite books.Becky Chambers has a way with words that makes every book she writes feel like home. I was sucked into this story from the first sentence ( If you read nothing else we've sent home, please at least read this. Eum yes?!).I've never read such a wholesome character driven sci-fi and I can't recommend this enough.A must read!
“We have found nothing you can sell. We have found nothing you can put to practical use. We have found no worlds that could be easily or ethically settled, were that end desired. We have satisfied nothing but curiosity, gained nothing but knowledge.” You have to possess a specific mindset to like this novella. You need to be that person who, in the middle of an adventure story featuring a group of explorers would pause and think — wouldn’t it be nice that if instead of battles/ chases/ intrig
“Our mission is to catalogue, not to colonise.”Beautiful and often startling musings on ethics, philosophy, and psychology, as a crew of four search for life on four worlds, light-years from home, over many decades. You feel the awe, the dislocation and discombobulation, the excitement, the struggle to describe the utterly unfamiliar, the camaraderie, and, sometimes, the fear.It's built on a simple plot that nevertheless has dramatic moments. It could be horribly self-righteous or boring, but I
THE MARTIAN meets INTERSTELLAR, this is high-concept speculative fic at its finest. Rendered with startling clarity, Chambers' latest offering is a short but fierce ode to humanity and all our reaches and flaws. Unputdownable.
3.5 starsWell written, but this kind of felt like the result of a creative writing assignment. It's like someone gave the author a prompt of "write a novella where a small number of humans are visiting unknown planets/moons light years away" and this is what the author came up with. Don't get me wrong, I would give this an A if I was a teacher grading this. There's thought given to how humans would need to adjust to different conditions (gravity, light, etc), how they would attempt to identify a...
The good:I honestly enjoyed the science bits and exploring the worlds. I kept thinking of Peter Watts' book, Starfish, where the people alter themselves for the harsh environment rather than the other way around. But unlike Peter's book, this is downright mild and doesn't go for the mental health issues. At least, it doesn't go for them in quite such a hardcore way.The bad: This is hard-SF, and while the cool focus is mostly on biology rather than physics, we still have to ignore quite a few thi...
The moment Mrin realized that she did not enjoy FANTASY her go-to genre BUT ended up liking this book...This was me after reading this bookNO, I WON'T LET YOU GUYS KNOW THE PLOT OF THE BOOK!!!!I forbid you all to look at the blurb!!!!Just go into it blindlyThis book was so atmospheric and fascinating !!!Also, you DON'T have to be a science student to enjoy thisthough you will enjoy it more if you are (Which is what happened to me🤗)The various terms the author used were something I was familiar w...
