The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

2014 Chambers, Becky [Rebecca Marie] (b. 1985). The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Np: Author. Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015. Public

First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet. The female author was born and lives in the United States but spent some years living in Iceland and Scotland.