If you’re looking for one connective storyline, there isn’t one. Of the three books, this latest volume has the loosest plot. I loved it then, it’s not that I didn’t, but I’d like to go again knowing what I know now. And that makes me want to go back and reread A Closed and Common Orbit without the expectations I brought to it the first-time round. I see now that Chambers is telling different stories and approaching different themes in each book, just using the same universe as the setting. While I didn’t make that same mistake this time round, this book has also helped me to appreciate its predecessor. My mistake, when I read A Closed a Common Orbit was to expect more of the characters from The Long Way to a Small Angry Planetand to find it wanting because they weren’t there.
So, let’s be absolutely clear: I enjoyed this a lot. Throughout these books I’ve felt that Chambers wants to mostly show the best that people can be, and as I am always ready to read that she remains a great fit for me.
As comforting as the previous two Wayfarers novels and as thought-provoking, Record of a Spaceborn Few continues to explore broad themes through smaller, everyday stories.
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