“Chambers Wayfarers series is the feel-good science fiction series you were looking for. If you yearn for science fiction with heart, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better candidate this stellar novel.” - B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog “The vibrant lines drawn between lives prove as compelling as laser battles and widescreen explosions. “While most sequels feel the need to go bigger and bolder, Orbit is a more intimate story than its predecessor, exploring trust, the mind/brain paradox, and unease with one’s body, while examining the ways someone without a family makes their way in the world and forms their own connections.” - AV Club “As good, smart and satisfying as its predecessor.If there was such a thing as a Cosy Space Opera subgenre of Speculative Fiction, Becky Chambers’ series would likely be listed alongside the equally excellent On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard and Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.” - Book Smugglers “ A Closed and Common Orbit may be smaller in scope than the book before it, but in its focus and its force, in the sheer delight it takes in the discoveries it documents, it’s as fine and as fantastical and as fun as Chambers’ absolute darling of a debut.” - Tor.com “Warm, engaging, properly science-fictional, A Closed and Common Orbit is a very likable novel indeed.” - The Guardian “Chambers uses her considerable talent to take a more focused and contained look at a gut-wrenching story of self-determination and personal autonomy No matter what beautiful and strange world Chambers takes us to, we can count on her to lead with humor and heart.” - RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars) “As with her amazing debut, the power of Chamber’s second space opera is in her appealing characters Her protagonists might not all be human, but they possess more humanity than most” - Library Journal (starred review) Praise For A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2)… When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for-and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates.Ī Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to that beloved debut novel, and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect, and Star Wars. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow.
When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence.
Clarke Award!Įmbark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera-the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! ‘Warm, engaging, properly science-fictional, A Closed and Common Orbit is a very likable novel indeed.Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!Ī Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick! When it comes to future novels, as the author herself says: ‘there's still a lot of space to cover.’ The stand-alone sequel A Closed and Common Orbit uncovers yet more of this astonishing universe. Originally a self-published novel that became a word-of-mouth bestseller and a Waterstones' bookseller's favourite, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet launched a powerful and exciting new voice in science fiction, garnering nominations for a tranche of awards and accolades including: the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction, the Tiptree Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle and the Arthur C. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty. Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence.
Lovelace had been in a body for twenty-eight minutes, and it still felt every bit as wrong as it had the second she woke up inside it.
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