The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

Need a bunch of friends? Just step aboard the Wayfarer! Whether you enjoy big ideas, strong emotions or a beautifully imagined world, you'll soon be loath to return to Earth.

Extract

He sat on a garden bench in the Fishbowl, his tea cooling as he worked through slow thoughts. Rosemary sat across from him, holding her own mug in her bony Human hands. She was silent as he thought out loud. He knew how strange they each were to the other - he for never thinking quietly, she for having no thinking sounds. He knew she understood his noise by now, though, and that knowledge made her silence feel companionable.

Parallels

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Borrow this book

Violence

Explicit sexual Content

Books with similar mood

Tigerman

Nick Harkaway

The Left-handed Booksellers of London

Garth Nix

A Bus Could Run You Over

Colin Butts

Stolen

Kelley Armstrong

The Good Thief's Guide to Venice

Chris Ewan

Babylon Steel

Gaie Sebold

If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead

Andrew Nicoll

The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Stray

Rachel Vincent

Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth

The Enterprise of Death

Jesse Bullington

Paradise Salvage

John Fusco

Mr Golightly's Holiday

Salley Vickers

Miss Fanny's Voice

Dorit Peleg

Dead I Well May Be

Adrian McKinty

The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World

Sabina Berman

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

Good News, Bad News

David Wolstencroft

The Temple of Optimism

James Fleming

The Stockholm Octavo

Karen Engelmann

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Tom Robbins

How to Kidnap the Rich

Rahul Raina

Daniel O'Thunder

Ian Weir