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A Closed and Common Orbit

by Becky Chambers

Hugo Award (Best Novel) · 2017 · ShortlistDragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · 2017 · Shortlist
Harper VoyagersffISBN 9780062569400

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hugo Award (Best Novel)2017Shortlist
Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2017Shortlist

About This Book

A ship AI is installed in a human body and must learn how to exist in the world. A warm, character-driven novel about identity and found family. Second book in the Wayfarers series. Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

About the Author

Becky Chambers is an American science fiction author born in California in 1986. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel multiple times, including for *A Closed and Common Orbit* (2017) and *The Galaxy, and the Ground Within* (2022). Her Wayfarers series is celebrated for its warm, optimistic, character-driven science fiction. Read more →

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