![]() ![]() ![]() But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy-exactly what Rosemary wants. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. Sometimes you just need a break from all the doom-and-gloom and universe-ending calamities that pervade so much of media these days, y’know? TLWTASAP is the antidote to all of that. If there were ever a “snack food” version of sci-fi, this is it. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers describes itself as a “light-hearted space opera”, and that’s really the most apt way to put it. ![]()
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