You need to be that person who, in the middle of an adventure story featuring a group of explorers would pause and think - wouldn’t it be nice that if instead of battles/ chases/ intrigue/ tension/ plot we just got a few hours of watching the explorers/ scientists/ astronauts just go about and do their day-to-day work, engage in whatever activities their mission was supposed to be about instead of being distracted by an adventure?¹ You need to be that person who can read a textbook before the course begins just because it’s fun learning new things². We have satisfied nothing but curiosity, gained nothing but knowledge.” You have to possess a specific mindset to like this novella.
We have found no worlds that could be easily or ethically settled, were that end desired. We have found nothing you can put to practical use. But the moods of Earth have little bearing on their mission: to explore, to study, and to send their learnings home.Ĭarrying all the trademarks of her other beloved works, including brilliant writing, fantastic world-building and exceptional, diverse characters, Becky's first audiobook outside of the Wayfarers series is sure to capture the imagination of listeners all over the world.
Back on Earth, society changes dramatically from decade to decade, as it always does.Īriadne may awaken to find that support for space exploration back home has waned, or that her country of birth no longer exists, or that a cult has arisen around their cosmic findings, only to dissolve once more by the next waking. Her experience is one of fluid body and stable mind and of a unique perspective on the passage of time. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.Īriadne is one such explorer.
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