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Zusatztext Becky Chambers writes aliens like no one else ... the only flaw in this series is you'll wish you could spend more time with all of them Informationen zum Autor Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which currently includes The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet , A Closed and Common Orbit , and Record of a Spaceborn Few . Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her most recent work is To Be Taught, If Fortunate , a standalone novella. Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she's now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day. Klappentext Praise for Becky Chambers 'The best speculative fiction currently being written . . . Becky Chambers is a wonder, and I feel better for having her books in my life' John Connolly 'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' Guardian 'A joyous, optimistic space opera... will restore your faith in science fiction (specifically) and humanity (in general)' Tor.com 'Wows us with daring leaps of imagination' iBooks 'Deeply moving... Chambers' writing [draws] you into these strange creatures' hearts and minds in a way that is never less than deeply involving' Daily Mail 'Terrific. . . a masterly exploration of characterisation and diversity wrapped in intensity, heartbreak and tension' Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat 'Moving in what feels like small personal ways but is actually big, universal ways and it is uplifting on the same scale' Forbidden Planet Zusammenfassung In her new novella, Sunday Times bestselling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves....
