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Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few (Paperback, 2017, Hodder & Stoughton)

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a …

bad

So the first book was a bit unfocused, the second book fixed that made a cohesive story. This third book is complete chaos, bland characters that do nothing, too many characters, none of the characters interact with each other.

It seems like the book wants to explore communism and how it is incompatible with capital... but it isn't very clear, since so much nothing happens.

Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit (Paperback, 2017, Hodder & Stoughton)

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit'

Where the first book felt sorta unorganized and random, this one felt focused on just two characters with, imo, very relatable marginalized, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA-esque experiences

Becky Chambers: The long way to a small, angry planet (Paperback, 2016, Harper Voyager)

When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, …

For some reason reminds me of Firefly

To me the book's chapters feel like episodes from a 90s tv show. Each episode/vignette kinda disconnected from the others, yet it somehow works. Kinda reminds me of Firefly, if there were more than humans, and the protagonists were not outlaws, just working class.

Charlie Jane Anders: All the Birds in the Sky (2016, Tor Books)

An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world …

Review of All the Birds in the Sky

A good book, though I would have rather it focused less on Laurence, I didn't really like him as a main character. I would have liked more of Patricia, much more of Peregrine. And it could use an epilogue or something at the end.

reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells: System Collapse (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom)

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Following the events in …

Part 2

Network Effect and System Collapse are both "novel length" but they get there by being unnecessarily wordy, as if it was just padded to length. And to make matters worse, the two books are two parts to the same story, this would have been much better if the two books were combined in a single book and edited down to length.