smokeandhoney

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Some things I like in no particular order: board games, video games, mechanical keyboards, automating stuff with amateur level python, my cat Tabitha, science fiction and fantasy novels, live music but only if I already know the songs



I just finished Record of a Spaceborn Few. I really like this series, where people are mostly decent to each other. It's science fiction where people have human-scale problems.

The Exodus Fleet feels like a place that could actually exist. It isn't a utopia but people's basic needs are met and society is structured for people to be connected to each other, which feels so much better than here.


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I think that one may have been my favorite of the series. It's a very quiet book, in a way, but I really loved seeing the Exodus Fleet through all those different perspectives

And I agree, it feels like a place that could exist and we could try to build together. It's less about the cool tech and more about how these people have decided to organize themselves and relate to each other

So far my favorite in the series is A Closed and Common Orbit. I liked the tight focus on two main characters. I was listening to the audiobook and Rachel Dulude's narration just about made me cry in the grocery store (at the part where Jane goes back to the Big Bug Crew sim as a teenager).

I liked three a lot though. I liked it just being a bunch of ordinary people, mostly going through their daily lives. I like a big adventure, but it's nice to have characters you can actually relate to too.

A Closed and Common Orbit is my second favorite lol

I found the exploration of how being embodied changes our experiences really interesting. I really felt for Lovey's distress at having a body and how she negotiates this new way to experience a world where she's a physical being and not a "container".