Paperback, 144 pages
français, French language
Published Nov. 12, 2020 by L'Atalante.
« Nous n’avons rien trouvé que vous pourrez vendre. Nous n’avons rien trouvé d’utile. Nous n’avons trouvé aucune planète qu’on puisse coloniser facilement ou sans dilemme moral, si c’est un but important. Nous n’avons rien satisfait que la curiosité, rien gagné que du savoir. » Un groupe de quatre astronautes partis explorer des planètes susceptibles d’abriter la vie : hommes et femmes, trans, asexuels, fragiles, déterminés, ouverts et humains, ils représentent la Terre dans sa complexité.
It is wonderful. I love the characters and I could really feel the ups and downs with them. The description of the sci-fi science was also very interesting and plausible in my opinion.
One of the books where I'm very sad when it's over and can't stop thinking about it for quite a while.
Unlike the super-high-tech far future of her Wayfarers series, Chambers focuses on just the near-future of the human race. Seen from a team of exoplanet explorers surveying alien life, To Be Taught paints a future where governments fail in the mission to space but the human spirit leads ordinary people to crowdfund the mission instead. And when the interstellar mission outlasts human lifespans, government lifespans and even societal lifespans, Chambers leaves us with a deeply personal question, ask from both her perspective and that of the protagonist, chronologically ancient, barely human and too distant to ever return home: how much is space exploration worth?
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