Read Psalm for the Wild Built

[conuly]

That's a very Becky Chambers book.

That's it, that's the whole of my review.

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Abandoned former USSR sites – in pictures

The Race to Preserve East Germany’s Colorful Plastic Past

Scientists Mystified, Wary, as Africa Avoids COVID Disaster

New clues to the biology of long COVID are starting to emerge

The Pirate Queen Who Avenged Her Husband’s Death on the High Seas

How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer

Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare

How Prison Writers Struggle to Be Heard

Burnout: Firefighter trauma rises in the American West

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

Her books tend to be light on plot, very strong on character. The world-building feels vivid, but is about as technically realistic as Star Trek. I loved the whole Wayfarers series, and thought Record of a Spaceborn Few was both distilled essence of Becky Chambers and an extraordinarily good book that moved me deeply. (I loved seeing the small choices of people build up to an emerging peoplehood. But it only worked because the people were vivid.)
I was really looking forward to Psalm for the Wild-Built, but I couldn't even finish it.