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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, 2)" by Becky Chambers
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:09:05 -0500
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On 3/21/2025 6:13 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, 2)" by Becky Chambers
>     https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062569406
> 
> The second book of a four book space opera science fiction series.  I 
> read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Harper 
> Voyager in 2017 that I bought new on Amazon.  I have bought the third 
> and fourth books in the series and will read them in the future.  Please 
> note that this series won the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series.
> 
> Life in the not so near future is quite different.  Earth was horribly 
> polluted and overcrowded so many people moved to other planets and space 
> ships in the Solar System.  And then the aliens showed up using wormhole 
> traveling space ships to cross the great expanses of space much faster. 
> The humans are now junior members of the Galactic Commons, the GC, with 
> all of the rights and responsibilities that come with that.
> 
> The Galactic Commons has many rules and regulations but foremost are the 
> rules against clones and unregulated sentient AIs.  This book is two 
> interweaving stories about two individuals, a clone and a AI, who meet 
> one day.  Jane 23 is a clone, a genetically modified hairless slave, who 
> grows up in a trash dump salvaging materials.  Jane 23 escapes the 
> salvage facility one day when she is ten years old while watching one of 
> the mama robots strangling her best friend, Jane 64.
> 
> Lovelace, nicknamed Lovie by the crew, is a sentient AI running one of 
> the tunneling wormhole space ships, the Wayfarer, when the space ship 
> was suddenly attacked by a Toremi space ship.  The resulting damage to 
> the Wayfarer caused Lovelace to go through a total reset, losing its 
> personality and memories with the crew.  Pepper, a technician, secures 
> an illegal blank AI body for the renewed Lovelace and moves the AI to 
> it.  But, the move from a several thousand ton space ship to a human 
> like body is not an easy transition for the AI.  Plus the transition is 
> highly illegal in the GC.
> 
> This series reminds me so much of the "Firefly" and "Star Trek" series 
> due to the people (including space aliens) interactions.  There are many 
> space alien races, xenophobia, both mammals and reptiles plus a blob 
> race, AIs, etc.  Technology and craziness are rampant throughout the 
> galaxy with people living everywhere that they can set down roots for a 
> while.
> 
> The author has a website at:
>     https://www.otherscribbles.com/
> 
> My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (17,267 reviews)
> 
> Lynn

reddit has several comments as usual:
  
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1jgugfo/a_closed_and_common_orbit_wayfarers_2_by_becky/

Lynn