The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Wayfarers, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Patricia Rodriguez
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Written by:
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Becky Chambers
About this listen
Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016.
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2016.
Firefly meets Mass Effect in this thrilling self-published debut!
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past.
But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. Life onboard is chaotic but more or less peaceful - exactly what Rosemary wants.
Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. They'll earn enough money to live comfortably for years...if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful. But Rosemary isn't the only person onboard with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed.
©2014 Becky Chambers (P)2015 Hodder & StoughtonWhat the critics say
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-04-11
great!
The performance was amazing and really fit the text well! The change in time used to speak for a character was really distinctive without ever getting annoying or distracting
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- Kaitlyn
- 2018-09-18
Fun Little Story
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a fun story that translates many current social issues into an interstellar context. Entertaining and surprisingly insightful.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-15
Truly Enjoyable!
Wow, I loved this book. I loved the complex understanding and reunderstandings of what it means to be a sentient being that this book explored. The relationships and growth of each of the crew member onboard the Wayfairer were really lovely to dive into. Would recommend highly.
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- James Arnold
- 2022-07-28
Character studies cunningly disguised as a story.
I enjoyed this book but not as much as I wanted to. The plot is very thin just used as a vehicle to give us the origin stories of the crew. Hopefully the sequel will tell more of a story more we know the main characters.
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- Mark Johnson
- 2021-12-31
It is not riveting and yet I finished it.
1. Sound effects and music, please don't do that. There was a chapter that had the most annoying background music. I almost redeemed my purchase it was so bad. In fact, there are some sections that are so slow and irrelevant that I almost redeemed my credit. Yet the story slowly unfolds in front of you with its optimistic social commentary. I chose to listen to it before bed and would often go to sleep wondering how Rosemary and the Wayfarers would make out. I hated this one so much that I ordered the next book...like I said, "The story grows on you".
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- Laura
- 2018-08-16
Fantastic characterization!
I loved every moment of the journey! These characters are sure to stay alive in my mind for a long time.
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- Gabrielle
- 2023-07-06
every bit as good as the book
I read the book when it came out and devoured it, as well as the rest of the series as it came out. Listening to it now, a few years later is like reconnecting with friends.
Patricia Rodriguez is amazing! Sje gives life to everyone in such a beautiful way.
Did I mention I really liked it?
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-12-07
Finding family amongst the stars
This is a beautiful, epic length story about found family, culture clash and conciliation, learning about oneself through living with other people, making choices, and space.
Very character-centric, the story quickly falls to the side as each chapter visits a new character and brings us their unique life and point of view. The narrator, Rodriguez, wonderfully changes accents, cadence and drawls to fit each character and distinguish their voices. It enriches the dialogues and reinforces the diverse alien cast of this spaceship crew.
Well recommended for anyone looking to have a lot of feelings about people searching for adventures or escapes and finding love, family and friends. Also, a love letter to space and a universe of possibilities.
While it is book 1 of a series, I found it enjoyable on its own. The plot will surely be furthered in the next books in the series, but this contained everything I needed to fall in love with the characters and understand everything that's going on.
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- Blake Chartrand
- 2021-09-02
Episodic and boring.
This book was nice. The characters were fun but predictable. But every couple chapters just felt like an episode to a tv show. A conflict would arise, it would be solved. Repeat ad nauseum. I would've rated this book higher because I actually enjoyed it but holy moly the ending is so drawn out and boring. I ended up increasing the read speed to nearly 2x for the last 2 hours and had no problem following the story because nothing really happened.
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- vishnu
- 2021-05-06
lovely telling of a lovely tale
The story:
This is something to read if you're looking for rich, deep, comprehensive world-building. Becky Chambers imbues her stories with a rich vein of compassion, hope, and, for lack of a better word, humanity. At first blush it may appear a Firefly clone (rag-tag group of "misfits" with a dashing Captain flying their way through space dealing with the gigantic Galactic Commons) but it's more like the flipside of that 'verse. These are not pirates or warriors, these are working class folks trying to do a a good days work, get paid, and life their lives. It's just happens that instead of a road crew, these folks build the tunnels (aka wormholes) spaceships use to zip around the galaxy.
It's a story buy turns funny and exciting and sexy (so low-key sexy) and addresses deeply human questions about how we interact with others and how we can work together.
The audiobook
The recording is very well done. While not a full cast, the reader, Patricia Rodriguez ,changes her voice enough to easily identify the speaker and imbue them with character without being showy or distracting.
I've read the book on page, but I've returned to this recording as a comfort listen a lot recently, it's like a warm audio blanket.
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