The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Wayfarers, Book 1

De: Becky Chambers

Narrado por: Rachel Dulude

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!

The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader’s Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's Women's Prize.

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.

Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.

Rich, charming, and really interesting!

Don't let the lighthearted descriptors fool you, this book starts a fascinating speculation into a space-faring future and offers endless friendly invitations to think about the nature of humanity, identify, relationships, family, and an array of other common concepts. And don't let all that fool you either. This book does all that in a completely approachable, familiar, and even lovable way. It's filled with great characters, funny moments, tense moments, surprises and satisfaction. All in front of the evolving backdrop unveiling of a fascinating future reality. The narration is truly enjoyable with great characterization and timing. Highly recommend.

Note: this is not a book for those looking for conflict, action, and pew pew pew. Those books are great too, but this isn't that.

Strong start to a unique and touching series

Its worth mentioning that I put off writing this review until i had already listened to this entire series, so I can say now that this book in particular is definitely worth the listen and the series as a whole stays solid throughout. To start off, this book is the best of them all imho. Chambers introduces a slew of characters that are lovable, humorous, loyal, fun, emotionally gripping and have a depth to them that I've noticed to my great delight all her characters display. she creates these intense REAL people that grab hold of your attention and emotions and make you invested in their lives and futures. Unfortunately Chambers' strength in building amazingly magnetic characters also brings about feelings of abandonment and betrayal whenthe rest of the books in this series were focused on different characters. Our beloved cast in this book were all but forgotten. The other books were still good in their own right but i still wish i could have gotten more from the original cast of lovable shipmates that i grew so attached to. Anyway this book was really good regardless and id highly recommended investing the time and money.👍👌

Great story. Didn’t love the narration.

Title says it all. I felt like I wanted to really enjoy the book but it was really hard to get past the poor performance.

Funny and strange!

This book was funny and strange. Kind of reminded me of 'Farscape' with a human and alien crew mix. I don't know if I liked it a lot or a little. Hard to rate.

cozy space trip

Cozy space trip, narrator has weird pauses. listened at 1.15x and it was okay. Pretty relaxing book overall