Becky Chambers was already one of my favourite SF writers with the Wayfarer series. This novella is the perfect layer cake of a hard scifi's foundation in realistic science (no teleporters and magic), interesting and intriguing utopian political structures that aren't without their own dramas and politics (because that's what being human is, isn't it?); and space exploration!

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