A Closed and Common Orbit
Wayfarers 2
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4,6 • 29 Bewertungen
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- 6,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
'NEVER LESS THAN DEEPLY INVOLVING' DAILY MAIL
'SO MUCH FUN' HEAT
'WARM, ENGAGING' GUARDIAN
A warm, comforting, big-hearted stand-alone set in the same world as the award-winning The Long way to Small Angry Planet.
Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone.
But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over.
Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty.
READERS LOVE BECKY CHAMBERS
'An emotional read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Wonderful, humane SF' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'It's a gentle and sweet read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Chambers is truly a master of Character Driven fiction' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'This world she has built is a vibrant, eclectic, multi-cultural joy to read about' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This worthy sequel to Chambers's lovely debut, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, again features marvelously detailed aliens, a universe full of carefully observed peculiarities, and a friendly, soothing atmosphere. This time, though, there's more emotional weight and depth, adding a necessary ominous shading to Chambers's generally calming voice. It's illegal for AIs to have bodies that can be mistaken for those of other sentient beings, but Lovelace downloaded herself into a human-form body on her first day of existence, more to help her ship's crew than by her real choice. Now, assisted by friendly tech Pepper, Lovelace has to figure out her new identity and make a new life for herself, including how to hack various portions of her own code to keep from being caught and destroyed. Simultaneously, Pepper's backstory as a cloned factory slave on a rogue planet that doesn't adhere to galactic laws is brought to the forefront, since not everything from her past can or should remain in the past. Chambers's clean, careful prose and beautiful pacing and structure keep the narrative engrossing from beginning to end.
Kundenrezensionen
Grandiose Tetralogie: Wayfarer
Ist der Vergleich mit Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke und Stanislaw Lem zu hoch gegriffen?
Wer in Chambers vier Bänden der Wayfarer-Reihe nach Schlachtengetöse zwischen Gut und Böse à la Star Wars sucht, ist hier falsch, wer jedoch hinter den erschröcklichen Abenteuern bei Star Trek Gene Roddenberrys Gesellschaftsentwurf wahrgenommen hat, der findet hier reichlich neue Anregungen.
Klar, um unserer Erde den intergalaktischen Spiegel vorhalten zu können, braucht es Alien-Hightech wie Hyperraumtunnel und überlichtschnelle Kommunikation sowie Energie satt.
Doch das ist nur die Bühne, auf der in vier Bänden vier sehr unterschiedliche ethische und gesellschaftliche Fragen höchst unterhaltsam, mit scharfem Verstand, Phantasie, viel Einfühlungsvermögen und gelegentlich aufblitzendem köstlichen Humor behandelt werden.
Ein ebenso humanistisches wie unterhaltsames Lesevergnügen, dem man in Zeiten überbordender Dystopien gern die Happy Ends verzeiht.
Liest sich auch gut im englischen Original, wenn man mit den zahlreichen Neologismen im Wayfarer-Universum zurecht kommt – ganz wunderbar übrigens die „gendergerechten“ Pronomen…