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What It Is to Be Human

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

March 28, 2020 by kimberleybear 2 Comments

I’m going to assume that the reader of this review has already read the first two books in Chambers’ Wayfarer series (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit). While there’s nothing specifically barring you from starting with this book, you’ll get a much better idea of the larger world if you start at the beginning. Well, I did it. I finished the series, despite really not wanting to. I hear that a new book is possibly on the way […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, hard sci-fi, Hugo Award, sci-fi, space opera

kimberleybear's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, hard sci-fi, Hugo Award, sci-fi, space opera ·
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A place to belong

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

March 10, 2020 by kimberleybear 9 Comments

You guys, these books. I really, really liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. It made me deliriously happy with the intricate character profiles, the worldbuilding, the way I felt like I was among friends almost from the start of the story. I didn’t want to leave the Wayfarer. And I knew the second book — this book — was going to do that, leave the Wayfarer, and journey off with Pepper and Blue to Port Coriol. And I’d met them already and […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, hard sci-fi, Hugo Award, sci-fi, space opera

kimberleybear's CBR12 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, hard sci-fi, Hugo Award, sci-fi, space opera ·
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Space Opera Done Fantastic

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

January 29, 2020 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

You guys, I really, really liked this book. Let’s start off there. It combines what I loved in the first parts of The Expanse series with Star Trek, stirs in the best bits of Firefly, and then adds a bunch of its own stuff. It’s very good. If that’s all you need to get you started, then go forthwith and devour at the next available opportunity. But I can’t get away with that little of a review, and I don’t really want to anyway, so […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Arthur C. Clarke nominee, Becky Chambers, hard sci-fi, Hugo Award, sci-fi, space opera

kimberleybear's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Arthur C. Clarke nominee, Becky Chambers, hard sci-fi, Hugo Award, sci-fi, space opera ·
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A bunch of gay as hell space books

The Disasters by M.K. England

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

December 31, 2019 by Amanda 1 Comment

These are some of the sci-fi books I read in 2019. I’m not going to specify how for each one but they are all gay as hell in various ways, which is honestly just how I think space is going to be for us when we finally get there. Or at least, I sure hope. The Disasters by M.K. England takes one of my favorite tropes, a ragtag bunch of outcasts who circumstances force together must fight for their survival and learn to trust and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, a big ship at the edge of the universe, a memory called empire, alex white, ancestral night, arkady martine, Becky Chambers, caitlin starling, elizabeth bear, empress of forever, ferett steinmetz, gideon the ninth, Max Gladstone, mk england, sci-fi, space feels, tamsyn muir, the be taught if fortunate, the disasters, the luminous dead, the sol majestic

Amanda's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, a big ship at the edge of the universe, a memory called empire, alex white, ancestral night, arkady martine, Becky Chambers, caitlin starling, elizabeth bear, empress of forever, ferett steinmetz, gideon the ninth, Max Gladstone, mk england, sci-fi, space feels, tamsyn muir, the be taught if fortunate, the disasters, the luminous dead, the sol majestic ·
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Oh this book

Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers

November 5, 2019 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

“From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live. By the stars, we hope.” Becky Chambers’s writing just resonates with me. It’s something about how incredibly realistic her characters are, set against an absolutely fantastic background. She write these stories about people living on a spaceship with incredible detail, down to how they grow food, and dispose of their dead, and handle cultural clashes with actual aliens, yet they act like people you’ve known your entire lives. Her books are inclusive and expansive and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Becky Chambers

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:214 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Becky Chambers ·
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Quadruple Cannonball!

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Institute by Stephen King

My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

October 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 3 Comments

Woo hoo! I hit 208 books this weekend. Here are the last 4 books I read, a nice mix of my favorite things: Becky Chambers, Stephen King, Christina Lauren, and a book about linguistics! (5stars) To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers I really love Becky Chambers’s writing — the subject matter (space!) is so fresh and interesting, but the characters at the center are so realistic and well-written (even when they’re not human). I was thrilled to discover that Chambers released a novella […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Amanda Montell, badkittyuno, Becky Chambers, Christina Lauren, Stephen King

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:208 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Amanda Montell, badkittyuno, Becky Chambers, Christina Lauren, Stephen King ·
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