{"id":3401,"date":"2026-02-15T19:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:59:28","slug":"review-record-of-a-spaceborn-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Review: Record of a Spaceborn Few"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Record of a Spaceborn Few<\/em> is Becky Chambers again creating a character drive SF story in a richly textured world.  It&#8217;s more a coming-of-age story than an adventure story, but those are adventures in their own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I re-read my gushing review of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3203\">A Closed and Common Orbit<\/a><\/em> and a lot of what I said there applies to <em>Record<\/em> as well.  It&#8217;s set in a different part of her galaxy, but the same intricacy and depth is there.  As many SF authors do, she creates a society based on familiar social principles pushed far enough to make things unfamiliar and uses that to talk about those principles.  I find the way those ideas are explored is more thoughtful and reasonable than many more polemic versions of that setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her writing remains impeccable, though I did find one chapter a little more on the nose than I was expecting.  It didn&#8217;t take me out of the story, but it did jar a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record of a Spaceborn Few is Becky Chambers again creating a character drive SF story in a richly textured world. It&#8217;s more a coming-of-age story than an adventure story, but those are adventures in their own way. I re-read my gushing review of A Closed and Common Orbit and a lot of what I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}