A Closed and Common Orbit

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Pubblicato il 25 Gennaio 2017 da Tantor Audio.

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978-1-5159-6642-5
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4 stelle (8 recensioni)

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace was forced to reboot and reset. Now housed in an illegal synthetic body, she's never felt so isolated. But Lovelace is not alone. Pepper, an engineer who risked her life to reinstall Lovelace's program, has remained by her side and is determined to help her.

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ha recensito A Closed and Common Orbit di Becky Chambers

The two main characters just weren't for me

3 stelle

Thoroughly enjoyed the worldbuilding and the story, but I felt like I had to do the work to relate to the characters. They both start off at points in their lives that are unique, interesting - and hard to wrap my head around. The author does a great job giving them distinct voices and letting them grow over time, but I just found them too far removed to really get into the book.

The secondary characters, however! I really loved reading about them from the perspectives of the protagonists, and as always, the interactions are wonderfully crafted.

feel good but real scifi too

4 stelle

i enjoyed A Closed and Common Orbit even more than the prequel one. (which has not enough story to keep up--for my taste at least) i think of it as a kind of double bildungsroman, with two developing characters between which the novel is split.

Chambers connects her scifi(-world) convincingly and smoothly with the problems most of us are facing and can relate to. it's how scifi should comment the present. and although the focus is always on the personalities, there are also a lot of social themes and thoughts.

a lot of readers mention the caring characters throughout the story, which make it so satisfactional to follow. I can support that! but it would be sad to think, it's just another form of escapism, a tweak to the genre. this is a shortcoming of understanding the themes Chambers is working on.

the real impact makes Chambers skill in building …

Another Optimistic Read

5 stelle

"A Closed And Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers is set in the same universe as "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" but follows side characters from the first book.

It took me a while to adjust to the new cast (I was still in love with the old cast!) but once I took a little break and came back to it with a fresh pallet, I really enjoyed it. I particularly liked how much the characters tried to look after each other.

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

Halfway through this novel, I've go two things to say about it.

First: Becky Chambers is reallly really good at depicting interpersonal relationships, empathy, small communities, people who care about each other. And the fact that this feels so refreshing (and maybe a little naive) is probably not a good thing: if we are not used to see people that care deeply about each other (and about strangers too), maybe the world we live in has a few problems it better face sooner rather than later.

Second: after a successful debut novel, most authors would have taken the safest and easier way: keep the same set of characters and write more of the same. Well, not Becky Chambers. She chose to write an entire different story, with entirely different characters. And yet, the result is a novel at least as good as its predecessor. To me, if you can pull …