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Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit (Paperback, 2017, Hodder & Stoughton) 5 stars

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …

I'm really really liking this book. It goes back and forth between two vignettes, that I suspect will cross at some point, and they're both fascinating in their own way. One is definitely of the more "cozy" variety, whereas the other is much darker, and starts off with some heavy exploitation of a vulnerable group.

The worldbuilding here is incredible. I find myself re-reading little sentences that explain shades of the world. Never going into too much exposition, so that when some fact of the world is explained I'm like gimme gimme gimme nom nom nom!!!

Only my second Becky Chambers book, but I think I'm a fan for life. <3