But Chambers pushes further, as she is wont to do. If Chambers had stayed there this would still easily be a four-star read that I would have been very glad indeed to have read. The prologue starts with a terrible tragedy and then we jump ahead four years in time and experience what life is like now and what the lingering fall-out is for the residents of the fleet. Like my other love Station Eleven, we trail several point of view characters over a period of time. They’ve found it now, but many have chosen to continue living on the ships as they orbit a star granted to them by other members of the Galactic Commons while some have taken off for life planetside or on smaller, individual ships. Chambers tells the story of the Exodus fleet, the homesteader ships that left Earth centuries ago in search of a new home for humans. Record of a Spaceborn Few fed my soul, it is all about hope and connection. When I read To Be Taught, if Fortunatein September of 2019 (godtopus I missed regular library service in 2020 and am glad to have it back) I was simply astounded at what it accomplished, and it was from that time my favorite of Chambers’ works, with A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planeta very close second (I had struggled a bit to get into A Closed and Common Orbit even though I eventually found it to be moving and important and a four star read). I should have known that Becky Chambers would deliver the goods. It has been quite a while since I’ve had a truly lovely reading experience.
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