Record of a spaceborn few

by Beck Chambers

The third novel in the Wayfarers series, set just before the first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and therefore before the second novel A closed and common oribt.

The novel describes events on the Asteria, one of the homesteader spaceships in the Exodan fleet, which was the last to leave Earth centuries earlier. It follows the lives of several characters living on the Asteria as they decide whether to stay on the Homsteader or emigrate to live "planetside". A fun read with some interesting ideas of what it would mean to live on a fleet of ships built to evacuate the dying Earth and whether to keep doing so once you have encountered other sapient species who provide highly advanced technology making your way of life obsolete.

From 01.01.2026 to 11.01.2026