A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT : WAYFARERS 2 PB – BECKY CHAMBERS

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD. WINNER OF THE 2017 PRIX JULIA-VERLANGER. Chambers is simply an exceptional talent Tor.com The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Lovelace was once merely a ship s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She s never felt so alone. But she s not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it s anything but empty. PRAISE FOR THE WAYFARERS Never less than deeply involving DAILY MAIL Explores the quieter side of sci-fi while still wowing us with daring leaps of imagination iBOOKS So much fun to read HEAT Warm, engaging, properly science-fictional, A Closed and Common Orbit is a very likable novel indeed GUARDIAN The most fun that I ve had with a novel in a long, long time iO9