I did have some fun with it but around 60% of this book amount of sweetness and cheeseness become overwhelming. Character driven sci-fi should have proper characters and character development, not Care bears in alien costumes.This book is just too naive, everyone is so nice, polite, warm and excepting and bad characters are just stereotypicaly bad .There is no room for drama and character growth.

But I would rather have no explanation than Kitty's faulty one, rather a handwavy magic fuel than algae, nothing explained on propulsion rather than perpetual energy machines. This stuff isn't necessary, and detracts from the wonder of the book. Alexander, Niall (27 April 2016). "Announcing the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022 . Retrieved 12 July 2022. You know the part where that bad guy gets hit with a plasma cannon way up close, and he turns into a skeleton and then he explodes?’ You are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things. That darkness exists within all of us.’ Awards". The Kitschies. 29 June 2022. Archived from the original on 3 April 2022 . Retrieved 29 June 2022.Yes, I’d love to live there. It’s just that I apparently find reading about it very boring. Quiet polite and introspective scenes of domesticity and found families work great for me as interludes or epilogues, but they need to punctuate something more tense and more exciting. But when it comes to The Galaxy, and the Ground Within the interludes are the entire story. My library ebook copy lets me copy snippets for quotes. So here's Ouloo, a Laru (you can tell from the vowel-heavy name), manager of Gora's Five-Hop One-Stop, trying to get ready for a day at work. There are complications:

It is also about rising above all that, and doing the right thing. It is about exploring what it means to live and feel and coexist. Things are frightening but ‘ scared means we want to live,’ as Kizzy says, and pushing on despite fear and struggles is key to being alive. What really drives the point home in a cool way is how two of the moments that most humanize the characters involves characters not considered “people” in the galaxy (like a clone, or I do want to repeat that these books have other strengths that are outstanding. That I learned a lot, was moved to tears and laughter, have quoted these books, been inspired by them, reread them, that there is so much in here that is unique and wonderful, and does not need the hard science to work. There is no obligation for it just because it is common. But what keeps having me stumble is the fact that on a hard science basis, it fails really badly. One recurring theme in this series is that the ships are powered by algae fuel (what energy grows the algae? Starlight, even in the most far out reaches of the gallery? Why would that power source suffice to power interstellar travel? And if it did, why would you run it through algae first, not use starlight directly? Are you telling me they are burning wet algae?), or are perpetual energy machines (seriously, every book, and explained literally! How are editors not catching this? You cannot harvest energy from your own movement sourced from exclusively your own energy. That is just not how it works.), and that "turning off gravity" (?!?) somehow also cancels momentum (those children can yell "falling" all they like, gravity or no, after hitting terminal velocity, they will still hit the ground or ceiling with a splat). The superluminal travel makes no sense as presented. The economic system makes no sense.

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Wayfarers is finished. The series concluded two years ago with the release of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. This is just one example of the incredibly diverse cast of aliens that populate the Wayfarers books, which share a universe but mostly stand alone. There are Aeluons, who communicate by flashing colours on their faces, and the reptilian Aandrisk, whose society is influenced by the fact they lay eggs – children are normally the result of casual sex, and aren’t reared by their biological parents.