Welcome to Litsy!

Becky Chambers has such a beautiful imagination. I‘m glad she chooses to share it with us.

Oh, man, that got me. 🥹 Beautiful and quiet, open and curious, and sad, but as always with Chambers, hope remains.

Petition to designate all scientist group hugs as 'molecule hugs'. ☺️

The joy of discovery.

Terra-forming vs somaforming: change the person, not the planet. Nifty!

Noticing some sci-fi specific colour ways. Which do you prefer? Bright green or red-orange?

Day one of the #autumnplease daily photo challenge for #scarathlon

I was thinking about my favourite and orangest books that deserve a space in anyone‘s #orangestack and I came up with this gorgeous novella by my absolute favourite sci fi writer 🧡

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I got a bit annoyed at the science explanations. As someone who studied science, having paragraph after paragraph explaining proper lab techniques, organism classification, chirality, gene sequencing, categorization - she spends pages and pages on classifications, which might have been fine in a full length novel but in 135 pages it just bogs down the story. I wanted so much more from a character standpoint. I missed that from the other books

"If you read nothing else we've sent home, please at least read this."

This has been my least favorite Chamber's book, hoping to finish it today and move on.
#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl

#LetterT recs:

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Tempest by Beverly Jenkins
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

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Booktube recommendation, never heard of author and may read another Becky Chamber's book but also heard this one is the best one so could be awhile 🧑🏻‍🚀

I hoped this much-beloved author would be an engrossing read. It‘s a loose narrative of a small team of astronauts tasked with the survey of four distant planets. This novella has unique ideas and inventive descriptions - each planet vastly different and alien - but the characters are underdeveloped. With the necessary jumps in time and place, the plot is tenuous, but I appreciated that the story ended with the possibility of two or three futures.

A brief and interesting novella exploring what it could mean to scientifically explore other planets with care and consideration of any potential existing ecosystem.

For such a short, little story, this really packs a punch. I felt so many different things while reading it and really didn‘t want to put it down.
I loved Ariadne‘s narrative, which almost read like field notes at times, but was never dry. I Loved the dynamic of the crew, the descriptions of different planets and species, the methods by which they were undertaking their research and the whole concept behind this wonderful book.

I have Psalm for the Wild-Built on my Kindle, but saw this at the library and it was kinda short looking and had good reviews so though I‘d give it a shot. Looks like the characters can take supplements and live on hostile planets, for some reason I read that and was like COOL I NEED 2 READ IMMEDIATELY ??

Ariadne O'Neill and her shipmates are exploring the 4 planets orbiting a red dwarf when they make a remarkable discovery.

The planets are fascinatingly different from each other and I hugely enjoyed these strange new worlds and the explorers' efforts to have the minimum possible impact on each one. I must admit I found the major discovery at the end of the book and the way it changed their decision about what to do next a bit of an anti-climax.

#lunchandabook

#TBRPile 📚 In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves...

Humanity‘s future is not changing planets to suit us, but changing us to suit new worlds.

This short novella follows four astronauts as they explore wonderful worlds. We get a stunning glimpse of the connections we need and can forge with others and of a future of exploration for science‘s sake. A future where knowledge & community are the ultimate goal.

There are no climactic battles. And no real resolution. But that‘s okay. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

CW 👇🏻

Given that I‘m back at the old job, I desperately need a change. So my weekend is going to be spent #audiopainting

I loved this novella! It has Becky Chambers‘ signature blend of realistic (but not overwhelming) science and human relationships. Even in the short time it took to read, I got invested in the characters and I would love a sequel to tag along with them on the next stage of their mission, whatever it may be.

This was wonderful, especially for such a short book. Everything Becky Chambers writes is such a delight.

Also, seems like I picked a perfect time to jump back into Litsy, I‘ll give #24b4monday a try.

I love Becky Chambers' writing, and her characters always linger with me long after the final pages of her works. This novella is a reminder that while we are “but a small part of this immense universe” none of us exist or survive without each other. 🚀❤

Exited to start Becky Chambers' new book! Picture is page 1...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was so good!

As a huge Becky Chambers fan I finished this novella with a feeling of disappointment.
The science part of this novella is fascinating and well written. But I read Becky Chambers because she makes me fall in love with her characters and this didn't happen here. There were moments when I could feel the warmth but the coals never caught fire. The second half is better than the first so it is worth persevering, a pick but not an omg amazing pick.