{4.5\/5} “The constellations changed as the Asteria continued its unending orbit, but the view from this spot always felt the same. The constancy was a comfort, a reminder that whatever unpleasantness you’d just been through was only a moment, only a blink with a vast, slow splendour.”<\/p>\n
Record of a Spaceborn Few<\/strong> by Becky Chambers, published in 2018<\/p>\n Humans left Earth in ships centuries ago, and some people are still living on those ships. Some people prefer the lifestyle, or prefer the enclosed space. Eyas is a caretaker for the dead. Sawyer has lived on a planet all his young life, but comes to a ship to see what it’s all about. Isabel is an archivist who looks forward to meeting her Harmagian friend Ghuh’loloan.<\/p>\n This novel takes place in the same universe as The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet<\/strong><\/a> and A Closed and Common Orbit<\/strong><\/a> but once again features a new set of characters.<\/p>\n It’s about people, humans and aliens, living their lives. It’s about people who live in ships not because they have to but because they want to.<\/p>\n It has a slice of life feel to it, but it’s nevertheless gripping.<\/p>\n This is the 3rd book by Chambers I’ve read. It’s all she’s written so far and I eagerly await her next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “The constellations changed as the Asteria continued its unending orbit, but the view from this spot always felt the same. The constancy was a comfort, a reminder that whatever unpleasantness you’d just been through was only a moment, only a blink with a vast, slow splendour.” Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13318,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions\/13318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}