A Closed and Common Orbit

after sitting with it for (quite) a while and finishing the rest of the series i???m upping the rating for this one! 4 stars thank u becky chambers

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3-3.5

???I know that if I am a person, I have no purpose by base, but I'm starving for one.???

This book wasn't bad, not bad at all. I think the part where I struggled a bit was also the part of me that had gotten attached to the crew of the Wayfarer and wasn't quite ready to let them go (and the additional part where I hadn't realised this wasn't actually a direct continuation from #1 until I started the book). I would've loved to see them in a cameo in this story, to make me feel a little less homesick.

I did really enjoy the philosophy of this story. What constitutes a person? How does an intelligent AI differ from “actual” people? Aren't we all just lines of codes, programmed differently? And it was really cool to have one of the protagonists actually be that AI and show the internal struggles that come with that.

All my love to Owl and Blue and Tak.