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Author Becky Chambers returns to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in We’re thrilled to share an excerpt below, along with an interview with Becky Chambers! *** Tor.com: What is the Wayfarers series about, and when and where do those books take place? Becky Chambers: The Wayfarers series is about everyday people living within a fantastic, intergalactic future. I built a very classic sort of space opera universe, then flipped the camera around to focus on the intimate slice...

Author Becky Chambers returns to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in We’re thrilled to share an excerpt below, along with an interview with Becky Chambers! *** Tor.com: What is the Wayfarers series about, and when and where do those books take place? Becky Chambers: The Wayfarers series is about everyday people living within a fantastic, intergalactic future. I built a very classic sort of space opera universe, then flipped the camera around to focus on the intimate slice...

Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series, which is concluding with The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, is a nice warm cup of tea when the weather outside is terrible. Sure there are conflicts and sadness but all of that unpleasantness is always outweighed by decency and honesty. It would be tempting to also claim that Chambers’s books are always interwoven with a fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity, which is true but only in the abstract. All of her characters in The Galaxy, and the Ground Within are very much not human. Welcome to Gora, which is an unspectacular planet that sits at ...

Contemporary life is a busy thing, full of demands and schedules and deadlines and destinations. The same holds true in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer universe, where a cadre of sapient species are part of an intergalactic civilization called the Galactic Commons (GC, for short) with its own rules, expectations, and inequities. It’s natural for those in the GC—just like it’s natural for us humans on Earth—to get lost in the day-to-day of one’s own life and the immediate stressors and concerns that go with it. And it’s equally jarring—as the year that was 2020 has shown all of us—w...