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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, Bk 1)
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Wayfarers, Bk 1 Author:Becky Chambers Somewhere within our crowded sky, a crew of wormhole builders hops from planet to planet, on their way to the job of a lifetime. To the galaxy at large, humanity is a minor species, and one patched-up construction vessel is a mere speck on the starchart. This is an everyday sort of ship, just trying to get from here to there. But all voyages lea... more »ve their mark, and even the most ordinary of people have stories worth telling.
A young Martian woman, Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. 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,put some distance between herself and the life she's left behind some distance from her past. An introspective young woman, she's never met anyone remotely like the ship's diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian alien pilot, navigating life without her own kind; chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks, who keep the ship running; and Ashby, their noble pacifist captain, awaiting the return of a loved one at war.. Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy-exactly what Rosemary wants. It's also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn't part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary's got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs-an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn't necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
A charming and intricately crafted sf novel whose title refers to the mission of a small tunneling ship, but which is really about the way its disparate crew interacts with each other, as a microcosm of the galaxy in which it exists.