The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Wayfarers 1

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It follows the rise of Starlight Brooking, a humble fishergirl, and her quest to bring equality and revolution to Edenheart, a settlement ruled by a conservative patriarchy.

Starting about two-thirds of the way into the book, we get Rosemary, a Martian Human, and Sissix, an Aandrisk. Cloudcuckoolander: Kizzy is a competent ship's tech and modder, but she has a very unique outlook on life. During the inquiry with the GC, Ashby reads them the riot act for trying to pursue an alliance with the Toremi Ka, telling them just how bad it would be to have a species that considers death a reasonable punishment for disagreement. That said, they also express things that they love about humanity, such as their tradition of eating meals together in big groups. The Friend Nobody Likes: Everybody else on the crew finds Artis Corbin to be unpleasant, but as he's an algaeist whose work provides the Wayfarer with vital fuel, they need him and thus are forced to put up with him.Taught by Television: Pepper was raised alone by an AI from age 10 to 19, and all she knows of other people comes from a small selection of interactive films the previous owners forgot to delete from the AI's memory.

There's also mention of a man named Walrus; his parents were thinking of 'Wolf' but didn't get it quite right. All three of these aliens have made a pit stop at the Five-Hop for their own individual reasons, but there's only one that keeps them there: a freak technological failure has put a halt to all traffic both to and from Gora. Given how they reduced themselves to this state by fighting a terrible war among themselves, these few survivors have collectively decided that the fact they can have no more children is ultimately for the best, and let their species quietly go extinct. Title Drop: the narration describes Hedra Ka as "A small, angry planet, surrounded by the warships of people who wanted to control it. As the wait stretches into days, each sapient will get something unexpected out of the experience that they might not have had otherwise.However, Pepper concludes her story as "Jane" in one of Sidra's chapters in conversation with Sidra and Tak, and from them on, her chapters take place in the present day as well (and are accordingly labeled "Pepper" instead of "Jane"). While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past.

Fumbling the Gauntlet: When Ashby is trying to negotiate with the Akarak scavengers, he wipes some sweat away from his face. Chef realized how badly things had gone for the Grum and their war after two things — finding out that his side had come up with the gene cutters that the enemy was using, and having to Mercy Kill his last daughter. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the 2014 debut science fiction novel by Becky Chambers, set in her fictional universe the Galactic Commons. Aeluon women, during their brief fertile periods, stay with groups of highly-trained parents, having sex with the males multiple times a day to maximise her chance of conception.At the Financial Times, James Lovegrove described it as "SF for the Tumblr generation, a feel-good tale of non-conformity, gender fluidity, multiculturalism and unorthodox sexual relationships", and "perfectly pleasant", but faulted it for "somewhat lacking .