The long way to a small angry planet

A road trip in space. A crew of multi-species working together on a mission to punch bridges in the universe.

Ashby has assembled a crew of multi-species on his ship, the Wayfarer. Sissix helps with navigating the ship. Kizzy and Jenks are the fun techies on the ship. Dr. Chef is a Grum, one of the remaining of the extinct species, who cooks for the crew and also attends to the medical problems of the crew. Corbin is a no-fun no-nonsense scientist who makes the fuel for the ship. Ohan is a Siannat Pair who can do complex mathematics and navigate the ship through the sublayer while the ship makes tunnel through the Universe. Rosemary fakes her way to the ship by forging her way to run away from her evil family.

Humans have driven themselves to extinction when they were saved by the Harmagian. And subsequently, many species in the Universe came together to form the Galatic Commons. They have their problems with their stereotypes as do we Humans. Now, the GC wants to expand to include the ever violent Toremi clans into their club. This sends the Ashby crew on a long long way to the violent Hedra Ka to make a space tunnel to connect the GC core to the Toremis.

As the crew makes their way to the Hedra Ka, we discover secrets of the crew. When they reach the planet, the ship faces fire and they tumble their way back to the core, they lose their AI. It is heartbreaking, warm and the most beautiful journey you will be on.

Notable characters:

  • Wayfarer: Ship of the book.

  • Ashby: Captain

  • Lovey: the AI on the ship.

  • Dr. Chef: Doctor and chef on the ship. Loves to garden herbs.

  • Sissix: Aandrisk, non-Human species, friend.

  • Rosemary: Martian Human, comes from a wretched family. Clerk for the Wayfarer.

  • Kizzy: Mech tech on the ship.

  • Jenks: Mech tech on the ship.

  • Corbin: Algaeist on the ship. Quite unapproachable.

  • Ohan: Siannat Pair, can see through the subsurface.

  • Nib, Bear: Friends of Kizzy and Jenks, who live on fringes and make shields.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Why you would like this book?

  • Space road trip.

  • Beautiful characters and their development.

  • The relationships between the people on the ship is so beautiful.

  • Amazing commentary on co-living of different species and human weakness.

Why you wouldn't like this book?

  • The scientific descriptions sometimes goes way over my brain, but if you are smart enough.

  • No more reasons.