#138 in Science fiction
Record of a Spaceborn Few
- 359
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Record of a Spaceborn Few” is a quiet Wayfarers novel: everyday lives aboard the human fleet instead of a voyage or a chase. Chambers asks what becomes of a culture that left Earth in ships, and answers with warmth and patience. Some readers feel hemmed in by the single setting and miss the wider galaxy of the earlier books. Like its predecessors, it stands largely on its own.
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About the book
Record of a Spaceborn Few is a 2018 science fiction novel by Becky Chambers, published by Harper Voyager in the US and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. It is a sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit.
Reading order · Wayfarers series
Full order & progress →- The Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetStart here
8.28.2 / 10 - A Closed and Common Orbit
8.58.5 / 10 - Record of a Spaceborn FewThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
8.68.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 624 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 81% of the weight and the score stays at 8.1 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 26 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 598 | 96% |
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How long is Record of a Spaceborn Few?
It has 359 pages — shorter than 68% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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