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booksarelife) wrote2018-12-12 12:38 am
booksarelife) wrote2018-12-12 12:38 am
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Talking meme: Becky Chambers' Wayfarers Series
I'm so sorry this so late, I meant to do it and then time got away from me and something would distract me every time I went to go do it, but here it is, finally! So, spoilers for the whole Wayfarers series, but any spoilery discussion of Records of a Spaceborn Few will be behind a cut.
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is up there on the list of my favorite books ever, because it is so hopefully and nice and interesting and inclusive and diverse and very much developed and I have a real soft spot for found family as a trope. I also love the emphasis on friendship and many kinds of romantic love, which I really love and appreciate as an aromantic asexual person who sometimes gets really annoyed by all the romance centric media (I can easily count on one hand the number of rom coms I've watched, ever).
I adore the worldbuilding and all the little details of clothes and references and all the background world/ship/universe details that make the story work! I love how we slowly learn more backstory about everyone as it becomes relevant! I really love Kizzy and Jenks' relationship and Sissix and Rosemary, and really all the cast and I have so many flail-y feelings!!
A Closed and Common Orbit is probably my least favorite of the three books, and it's still great, I just miss the comfort feeling I got from the first book and Sidra's journey was more stressful for me, but I loved getting to know Pepper and Blue more and learning about life on a planet! I don't really have a lot of articulateable feelings about this one.
I actually loved Records of a Spaceborn Few more than I expected when I started reading it because I started reading it in tiny chunks during school, and then over Thanksgiving break I had to take a train ride and I was going to be carrying a backpack anyways so I decided to bring the book along to read on the train and I fell in love with it!! I really love the format, especially when you get far enough in to care about all of the characters and I really loved getting to see another way of life than we've gotten to see so far. This book also has some of the calm, comforting feeling that the first one did, which I think is at least partly the reason Sawyer's death shocked me so much. I didn't expect it to be permanent or actually real, but I loved where it took the story!! I particularly loved Tessa, Eyas, and the archivist whose name I've embarrassingly forgotten and that we actually got to see a Harmagian up close for a while!! I also really love the messages the book gives: everyone's life is important, we can achieve so much by working together, that we need to really think about and try to provide resources for immigrants, and emigrants, and not be so advanced school/degree-program focused or focused on how someone can materially benefit society. I'm getting really tired and my brain is starting to give up, so I'm going to end here, but may put more in the comments tomorrow. Feel free to ask questions, squee/flail, or suggest things in the comments
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is up there on the list of my favorite books ever, because it is so hopefully and nice and interesting and inclusive and diverse and very much developed and I have a real soft spot for found family as a trope. I also love the emphasis on friendship and many kinds of romantic love, which I really love and appreciate as an aromantic asexual person who sometimes gets really annoyed by all the romance centric media (I can easily count on one hand the number of rom coms I've watched, ever).
I adore the worldbuilding and all the little details of clothes and references and all the background world/ship/universe details that make the story work! I love how we slowly learn more backstory about everyone as it becomes relevant! I really love Kizzy and Jenks' relationship and Sissix and Rosemary, and really all the cast and I have so many flail-y feelings!!
A Closed and Common Orbit is probably my least favorite of the three books, and it's still great, I just miss the comfort feeling I got from the first book and Sidra's journey was more stressful for me, but I loved getting to know Pepper and Blue more and learning about life on a planet! I don't really have a lot of articulateable feelings about this one.
I actually loved Records of a Spaceborn Few more than I expected when I started reading it because I started reading it in tiny chunks during school, and then over Thanksgiving break I had to take a train ride and I was going to be carrying a backpack anyways so I decided to bring the book along to read on the train and I fell in love with it!! I really love the format, especially when you get far enough in to care about all of the characters and I really loved getting to see another way of life than we've gotten to see so far. This book also has some of the calm, comforting feeling that the first one did, which I think is at least partly the reason Sawyer's death shocked me so much. I didn't expect it to be permanent or actually real, but I loved where it took the story!! I particularly loved Tessa, Eyas, and the archivist whose name I've embarrassingly forgotten and that we actually got to see a Harmagian up close for a while!! I also really love the messages the book gives: everyone's life is important, we can achieve so much by working together, that we need to really think about and try to provide resources for immigrants, and emigrants, and not be so advanced school/degree-program focused or focused on how someone can materially benefit society. I'm getting really tired and my brain is starting to give up, so I'm going to end here, but may put more in the comments tomorrow. Feel free to ask questions, squee/flail, or suggest things in the comments
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everyone's life is important
Such an important message right now! And I did love how they'd set up their community and how they struggled to reintegrate it to a more economic based one - how adaptable societies need to be in order to survive.
While I loved all three, I still would like to see more random adventures of the Wayfarer crew.
Pepper's backstory was interesting and I liked how it highlighted the sentience of AI's. It made it rather interesting when the fleet was considering upgrading and in those upgrades Tessa lost her job. That loss leading to her and her family actually moving forward. There's something unique feeling about how threads in this series are connected, but not in a linear story about one set of characters like most other series.
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