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almond_dwarf 's review for:
Record of a Spaceborn Few
by Becky Chambers
The best way I can think to describe Chambers' work is post-dystopian sci-fi. It's not utopian, though it's close, but rather based in a future where humans actually learned from their mistakes. Instead of being set during the strife and hardship of the last humans of Earth, who worked for generations to tear down and repurpose Earth's cities into homesteader spaceships once it was blatantly clear we'd destroyed our home planet, we get to learn about what society is like generations after the fact - and after essential alien intervention.
I understand why (based on other reviews I've read) this is people's least favorite of the Wayfarers series - it's almost all about humans. But I still found a grounding realness in the fact that some humans would choose to continue living on homesteader ships that were only ever meant to be transportation to new home planets. It could be seen as clinging onto outdated traditions out of stubbornness, but it could also be seen as ensuring that at least some portion of the human population remembers our past mistakes.
I understand why (based on other reviews I've read) this is people's least favorite of the Wayfarers series - it's almost all about humans. But I still found a grounding realness in the fact that some humans would choose to continue living on homesteader ships that were only ever meant to be transportation to new home planets. It could be seen as clinging onto outdated traditions out of stubbornness, but it could also be seen as ensuring that at least some portion of the human population remembers our past mistakes.