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Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace longer than six …
Really enjoying this so far! Great characters, good writing, cute flirting, lots of good unanswered questions that are starting to get all twisty.
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, …
This book was exhausting
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, …
I feel bad for still complaining but it's a page later and ugh, I'm so tired of just jumping right into the middle of the next scene with nothing but a section break as transition! Are they dreaming now? What's the setting? It has to have been at least several hours (sorry, "cycles") in-world, can I at least get a sentence to reset my mood from "glum and worried about my friend" before dumping me into "running for my life from a scary monster"?
So many times in this book I've been so confused about where we are and how much time has passed, and been hit by abrupt mood shifts.
I don't know if this is some sort of hip new narrative style or what, but I don't like it.
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, …
We're halfway through the book, why are we still putting conversions from your space clock to earth time in parentheses? I know it's YA, but your clock is already suspiciously close to earth hours and days anyway, we don't need to be reminded that a metacycle is the thinly-veiled day-analogue every time, I promise!
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, …
So far I am not terribly impressed. I'll probably finish it because book club, but I've hadvs hard time getting into this one.
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’—she doesn’t have to, …
Probably not one I'd pick up myself, but it's Hugo book club time, so here we go!
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
Okay, that wrapped up pretty decently, with all the genre storylines twisting around each other. Overall, really liked it!
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
I am nervous about how the things resolve! It is good!
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
Not even halfway through and this book is already destroying me in the best way, and oops new characters are getting some development! I was not prepared.
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
The plot thickens! I am worried
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
Umm wow I love all these characters and feel fiercely protective of them already they are all so good and deserve so much better and they'd better damn well get it
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
It's already very good!
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
If you're willing to trade your email and are in the US and Canada, until tomorrow (end-of-day Eastern Time on May 6), you can trade your email at ebookclub.tor.com/ for a ebook collection that includes this novella. If you bounced off of Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, this is a great way to give Becky Chambers a second try, which I encourage folks to do! I've read all of her books, and Long Way is by far my least favorite.
This book is a totally new series set on some sort of future-Earth-analog, and the hopeful eco-solarpunk warm-cup-of-tea post-apocalypse world is a perspective I didn't know I was missing until I read it. Highly recommended, and if you hate it, hey, it's only 160 pages.
And speaking generally: I find Chambers' writing (especially after Long Way) to be hopeful and optimistic without being cloying or insubstantial, which is …
If you're willing to trade your email and are in the US and Canada, until tomorrow (end-of-day Eastern Time on May 6), you can trade your email at ebookclub.tor.com/ for a ebook collection that includes this novella. If you bounced off of Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, this is a great way to give Becky Chambers a second try, which I encourage folks to do! I've read all of her books, and Long Way is by far my least favorite.
This book is a totally new series set on some sort of future-Earth-analog, and the hopeful eco-solarpunk warm-cup-of-tea post-apocalypse world is a perspective I didn't know I was missing until I read it. Highly recommended, and if you hate it, hey, it's only 160 pages.
And speaking generally: I find Chambers' writing (especially after Long Way) to be hopeful and optimistic without being cloying or insubstantial, which is a hard balance to strike. In Wayfarers, her non-human societies/creatures (and there are a lot!) are fascinating on a personal level in a way that is missing from a lot that I read, and do an good job of not just being "humans with antennae".
And other than Long Way, Wayfarers are all totally independent, so you can pick up whichever strikes your fancy and pick up the others in whatever order you like. And you don't even have to read Long Way first - just avoid Closed and Common Orbit if you don't want a big character spoiler for Long Way, everything else is pretty loosely coupled.
Read this for Hugo book club. I liked this better than Elatsoe, but still not my favorite, for similar reasons. I think I've been spoiled by the writing in really good YA maybe. It's a fine story, and I did appreciate getting into a mythology I'm not familiar with, which really is where this book shines, but the writing and especially the real-world bits fell flat for me.
It just keeps being wild and out there in very good ways! My hold is up, so gonna stop here and pick up at Part III later probs