Libration

This book might be part of the Les voyageurs series.

Lovelace, intelligence artificielle née à bord du Voyageur à la fin de L’Espace d’un an, accepte de se transférer à bord d’un corps synthétique. Devenir humaine, une chance ? Pas pour elle : les limitations de la chair l’étouffent. Champ de vision ridiculement restreint, pas d’accès au réseau, réactions physiologiques incontrôlables... À ses côtés, Poivre, mécano, l’aide de son mieux. Ancienne enfant esclave libérée par miracle, grandie seule sur une planète ravagée, elle aussi a dû lutter pour accéder pleinement à l’humanité et se construire une vie, sinon ordinaire, du moins normale. Libration – nom d’un point de l’espace en équilibre entre deux astres, zone de stabilité mouvante qui accompagne les planètes dans leur danse – raconte l’histoire de ces deux femmes. Chacune à sa façon s’arrache à une vie liminale pour se tailler une identité, conquérir l’indispensable : la dignité. On ne croise pas ici les autres personnages de L’Espace d’un an ; Chambers, au lieu de prolonger leur histoire, l’élargit. Sa tendresse et sa lucidité nous offrent des pages déchirantes – l’enfance tragique de Poivre, qui ignore tout de l’amour, et l’isolement de Lovelace, identique à nous mais incapable de vivre comme nous – et un chant d’amour plein de confiance et de courage.

5 ediciones

Tapa blanda, 384 páginas

Idioma Français

Publicado el 22 de junio de 2017 por L'Atalante.

ISBN:: 978-2-84172-811-4
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Science Fiction
Fiction, science fiction, general
IA

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Rougher reseñó A Closed and Common Orbit de Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

lovely

5,0 stars

Yet again a wonderful exposee on (mostly non-) human kindness.

Another Hopeful Fool reseñó A Closed and Common Orbit de Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

I Cried

4,0 stars

The dual stories, told in short, impactful chapters is such a powerful mechanism, and Becky Chambers wields it perfectly.

Both stories are riveting for their own, very different reasons. But both have to do with social justice, and personhood denied.

I found myself getting to the end of one chapter and being oh but I want to stay with this character! only to get embroiled in the other character's chapter immediately.

It's like an anti-cliffhanger. Rather than leaving you hanging, it pulls you in to the next segment, and then pulls you right back into the following.

If you liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - the previous entry by Becky Chambers, then I can super-recommend this.

coldwave@book.dansmonorage.blue reseñó A Closed and Common Orbit de Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

even better than previous

Sin valoración

More feel-good scifi. (No spoilers:) It's Pepper backstory, and another minor character from A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I think this one benefits a lot from taking it slowly and focussing on just two characters.

moving to outside.ofa.dog reseñó A Closed and Common Orbit de Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

made me cry more than once

5,0 stars

I absolutely adored this book. I realise that part of this is that it was a perfect little escape while I was stuck at home with covid, but I do also think it's really wonderful.

It has some similar strengths to the first in the series, in that it's mostly about the relationships between a few outcast characters that become a chosen family and just happen to be in space. But if anything I think it's better written (I guess Chambers getting into her stride with book 2), and benefits from being a more focussed story of a smaller number of characters. And has some weightier things to say about embodiment, the tension between fitting in and freedom, and loyalty & reciprocity.

I am excited about the rest of the series.

Michael reseñó A Closed and Common Orbit de Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

5,0 stars

A wonderful sequel

This book went an entirely different direction from the first in the series, yet it was just as enjoyable. My favorite part of the book was the structure in which the two stories were told in parallel, coming together into a great finish. Can't wait for the third one!