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Tiste Simeon, on 30 July 2021 - 03:25 PM, said:
TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 July 2021 - 12:36 PM, said:
Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series.
Four books beginning with The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, which is very Firefly-esque in terms of "found family" on a ship getting into misadventures. The second one A Closed and Common Orbit is perhaps the weakest of the four, although still very good. A Record of a Spaceborn Few is a slightly different style in that it seems to be a collection of unrelated threads which do mostly converge in the end, and does a fantastic job of asking the question of what happens when humans have been in space long enough that they start to look back to the ground? It's probably my favourite and I found it the most affecting of the four. The final one The Galaxy and the Ground Within is different again, showing how a bunch of strangers of different species temporarily stuck mid-journey on a small station together cope and how they help one another.
They're linked together tenuously but all take place in the same universe.
Four books beginning with The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, which is very Firefly-esque in terms of "found family" on a ship getting into misadventures. The second one A Closed and Common Orbit is perhaps the weakest of the four, although still very good. A Record of a Spaceborn Few is a slightly different style in that it seems to be a collection of unrelated threads which do mostly converge in the end, and does a fantastic job of asking the question of what happens when humans have been in space long enough that they start to look back to the ground? It's probably my favourite and I found it the most affecting of the four. The final one The Galaxy and the Ground Within is different again, showing how a bunch of strangers of different species temporarily stuck mid-journey on a small station together cope and how they help one another.
They're linked together tenuously but all take place in the same universe.
You're someone whose tastes quite often coincide with mine and as such, on my "to be trusted with recommendations" shortlist
I'll add them to my ever growing "I should get them and read them" wishlist...I've read the first three (own the fourth) and they are all very good, but it was the second one that really blew me away, funnily enough.
