![]() ![]() Her work is obviously influenced by TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, and Firefly, in that it trends more toward a galaxy full of rusty, beaten-up spacecraft and wisecracking opportunists than it does the gleaming ideals of the Star Trek franchise.īut where too many other sci-fi writers have taken the scuzziness of universes like Chambers’s and written stories that are similarly scuzzy, Chambers writes books about how people - and the aliens who love them - take care of each other in a world far bigger and weirder than our own.Ĭhambers’s three novels - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014), A Closed and Common Orbit (2016), and Record of a Spaceborn Few (2018) - are all set in the same universe, where humanity made it out to where other intelligent species lived and soon found themselves near the bottom of the galactic political order. She’s just that good.Ĭhambers writes science fiction about far-future humans who have taken to the stars. ![]() ![]() But I read my first Chambers book in summer 2019, and I finished everything she’s written thus far by February 2020. I try to space out the works of my favorite authors to ensure I always have something to savor. I have devoured few authors’ bibliographies like I have the three novels and one novella written by Becky Chambers. ![]()
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