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Lise\xa0and Andi rave about (and discuss) the first book in the\xa0Wayfarer\xa0series by\xa0sci\xa0fi author Becky Chambers,\xa0The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet\xa0(2015).\xa0

Human Rosemary is running from her past, and lands a job on the\xa0Wayfarer, a wormhole-punching ship whose crew is made up of a variety of sentient beings (some humanoid, some not), and the ship\u2019s AI stitched together into a family of sorts and working toward common goals. The crew lands a major contract for a wormhole job, but the job comes with some risks. This is the crew\u2019s journey to that job, told through 9 different POVs of the\xa0crew members.\xa0\xa0

It\u2019s a\xa0fabulously-wrought\xa0road trip space opera with gorgeous world-building expressed through Chambers\u2019 characters and their interpersonal relationships and cultural and historical backgrounds, which reveal themselves in layers. The characters that populate this beautifully written journey make this debut unforgettable and Andi and\xa0Lise\xa0are pretty sure that when you read it, you\u2019ll immediately read the next two books in the series and then read the whole thing again.\xa0

Find Becky Chambers at\xa0her website.\xa0
Read an interview with her\xa0at\xa0CulturedVultures.\xa0
Find out more about\xa0The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet\xa0at io9\xa0and\xa0the Tor.com blog.\xa0

Plus, Lise geeks out about the lesfic novel Ask Me Again, by E.J. Noyes, while Andi talks about the show that kept her going through her recent bout of illness: Legacies.