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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
[...] Last night, I finished Becky Chamber's A Closed and Common Orbit, which was VASTLY better than the first volume in her series. The characters were more well-developed and she did very interesting things with AI. I also didn't feel like I was reading a knockoff Firefly story. Glad I stuck with it.
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That is interesting to hear. I was disappointed in
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. It seemed to me to be a book of unfulfilled potential; it did indeed seem to me to be a
very long way to that planet. (I described it in my review as "Star Trek meets Disneyland"; everyone was just so nice it was hard not to bring up visions of Pollyanna - although perhaps the sexual references might have been out of place.) But I did like Chambers' voice in her story telling, so I'd be willing to give her another chance (once the ebook editions come down to reasonable prices here in Aus.).