The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Wayfarers 1

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A Closed and Common Orbit (2016): Sidra is a sentient AI who used to reside inside of a spaceship until circumstances beyond her control forced her to relocate. Pepper was the engineer who installed Sidra into her new body, a kit designed to look and act Human. Pepper herself is a designer baby who only knew a life of sorting junk until a fateful accident let her escape the factory that bred her. Pepper's past and Sidra's present share more similarities than either of them realize, and it will take Sidra some soul searching and hard thinking before she is able to carve out a space for herself on Port Coriol. His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Speaker's name in her native language turns out to be "Speaker": Akarak are so short-lived that they only have time to learn and perfect one skill in life, and hers is speaking fluent Klip. Genetic engineering and the eugenics that follow is a recurring subject with a variety of laws intersecting it across species, with the most universal laws being allowing prenatal gene therapy in the case of extreme disability and banning cloning. 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.

Secret-Keeper: Tak towards Sidra after xyr inkbots causes her kit body to malfunction. Tak is at first uncomfortable with it (since Sidra's existence is illegal and highly unordinary), but after talking with and learning more about her, comes to see Sidra as a person as much as Pepper and Blue do, and becomes her close friend. Mmm, Sissix has a lot of prep work to do before the punch tomorrow. She probably won’t have the time.’ Ashby grinned. ‘I’m sure you’ll give her a great tour.’ CHARACTERS. My god, the personalities were fantastic! T he Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Audiobook Free. This was excellent novel/series for me due to the fact that what I enjoy in the novel is well-crafted characters. Chambers had simply that. I can not claim who I liked the most because every personality had an unique voice and I was able as a viewers to connect per of them in various ways.Also inverted quite a bit; since several main characters are Human, and The Protagonist, Rosemary, is a fairly sheltered Human who's had very little prior interaction with non-Human species, the Human characters note either to themselves or out loud the many things that frighten, puzzle, or fascinate them about other species. At the end of February 2013, she announced the book's completion, and acquired a literary agent; [4] the book was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2015. Corbin was indignant. ‘They don’t come cheap! She did it just to get at me, I know she did. If that selfish lizard can’t—’ Lovelace – Referred to by the crew as Lovey, Lovelace is the Wayfarer's onboard AI who runs the processes on the ship and helps during communications. Token Non-Human: Averted. Of the nine members of the crew, five of them—Rosemary, Ashby, Kizzy, Jenks, and Corbin—are Humans, while four are not: Sissix (Aandrisk), Dr. Chef (Grum), Ohan (Sianat Pair), and Lovey (AI).

Dark and Troubled Past: Poor Dr. Chef. When he was female, his whole world took part in a civil war that destroyed their race, leaving only a few hundred to slowly die out. While he's made peace with his past and built a new, happy life for himself (following his dreams of both being a cook and being a doctor), it's clear that he's still bothered by it from time to time. Rosemary imagined the lengthy letter of complaint her mother might write after such a trip. She tried to imagine the circumstances in which her mother would travel by deepod at all. She couldn’t even picture her mother setting foot within a public spaceport. Rosemary had been surprised to find herself in such a place. The dingy waiting area, the twitching pixel posters, the stale smells of algae gunk and cleaning fluid. Despite the exoskeletons and tentacles milling around her, she had felt like the alien there. Gender Bender: Sidra's friend Tak is a shon Aeluon, and at different times throughout the book, uses he/him or she/her pronouns to indicate xyr current gender, and occasionally actually uses xe/xyr when in the process of transitioning. Corrupt Corporate Executive: Quentin Harris, Rosemary's father, who sold gene targeting weapons to both sides of a civil war, even though he was already fabulously rich through a legitimate business. Rosemary: (Frowns) Okay, so, the cages are light-years apart. They're not in the same place. But...they behave as if they were in the same space?We cannot blame ourselves for the wars our parents start. Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away.” Friends with Benefits: Eyas and Sunny, the sex worker she meets at a tryst club. There's no romance between them, but their friendship eventually grows to the point where she feels comfortable meeting him outside the club, and he helps her with her immigration resources project. The most notable case, however, is the Toremi, who no-one else in the galaxy can figure out. They process the entire universe in terms of patterns, and view conformity as so intrinsically good that when Toremi dispute their particular subgroup's orthodoxy, they will swiftly form a new subgroup, hostile to their former one, in which to insist upon their new orthodoxy, an approach that has left them with many factions engaged in a constant war with every other faction.

Rosemary dutifully shut her eyes as the shutters whirred open, but her eyelids remained dark. She opened her eyes to find that the only significant source of light was coming from within the pod. As she had expected, there was nothing beyond the window but empty space and tiny stars. Out in the open. Sissix – An Aandrisk, and pilot of the Wayfarer. When she isn't flying the ship, she seems to spend the rest of her time arguing with Corbin. Gender-Equal Ensemble: As close to it as an odd-numbered crew can get; the Wayfarer crew has five male members (Ashby, Jenks, Dr. Chef, Ohan, and Corbin) and, once Rosemary joins, four female members (Rosemary herself, Kizzy, Sissix, and Lovey). The male and female supporting characters are about equal in number as well. This is averted, though, by the end of the book; the original Lovey dies and her Lovelace reboot leaves the ship and is replaced with a male AI named Tycho, leaving the count at six men and three women. Tycho, the new AI who replaces the reset Lovelace after she leaves. Ashby notices that he sounds a bit nervous around his new crew because he knows what happened to Lovey and that he can't replace her but still wants to please them, but his few appearances show him to be perfectly nice, and he's stated to get along well with Jenks.Humans Are Smelly: Sissix and Dr. Chef, who both have more powerful senses of smell than humans, have a rather giggly conversation in which they agree on this; Dr Chef admits he's been secretly adding powerful anti-odor powders to the soap dispensers on the Wayfarer to make their human crewmates smell less bad than most other humans. (They never noticed.) Of course I have. I told you all to read this file ages ago so you could get a feel for her before she arrived.’ Ashby had no idea what Corbin was getting at, but this was Corbin’s standard operating procedure. Complain first, explain later.

How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.” Loophole Abuse: When Corbin is put under arrest by the Quelin for being a clone, Rosemary finds out that they can rescue him if they have someone stand in as his legal guardian while he goes through the application process for non-GC species. However, said guardian has to come from a species that doesn't ban cloning...meaning it'll have to be Sissix, who shares a mutual loathing with Corbin. The fact that she does this for him despite their hatred of each other is a major factor in spurring his Character Development.

Goodreads Summary:

The Harmagians are mostly similar to Humans, except for their species' emphasis on manners, especially when it comes to the relationship between hosts and guests. Guests who do not behave properly are considered as bad as criminals. That’s a standardised letter if ever I saw one. I bet that professor has sent the exact same letter on behalf of every milquetoast student that came mewling through his door.’ Fleeing her old life, Rosemary Harper joins the multi-species crew of the Wayfarer as a file clerk, and follows them on their various missions throughout the galaxy. The novel concerns itself with character development rather than adventure. Each member of the crew has a story that unfolds, or a crisis to face. They encounter several alien environments on the slow path to their destination. At the end, the ship is damaged by hostile aliens, precipitating changes in the relationships between the characters, setting them on new paths.