Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
Jul. 26th, 2018 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I read this. It flows nice and I didnt get bored or stuck.
It's a nice happy story about people who were treated as things finding their way to feeling at home as people.
... or it's a terrible story of child slavery, off screen murder, and nearly getting ate by dogs. but that half is told in flashback so you know it works out okay, which swings it to nice and triumphant again.
still. dogs definitely die in this one. protein.
it's also about an AI with anxiety problems? like, whatever neurotypical would be for AI, at the start she is not it. and she finds work arounds as well as fixing some bits. so i like. can relate.
... it's worrying that Most Relatable lately have been characters who just want to watch media and play sims and maybe attain minimal function as a person.
another theme in this book is how bodies are assigned to you and dont always feel like they fit, and the ways people live with that, change bits, learn, roll with it or push back. is interesting.
I don't feel like I have much to say about it, but that might be the weather.
I didnt feel like I'd read these people before, it seemed familiar only because they are recogniseably plausibly people.
so I think I liked it.
It's a nice happy story about people who were treated as things finding their way to feeling at home as people.
... or it's a terrible story of child slavery, off screen murder, and nearly getting ate by dogs. but that half is told in flashback so you know it works out okay, which swings it to nice and triumphant again.
still. dogs definitely die in this one. protein.
it's also about an AI with anxiety problems? like, whatever neurotypical would be for AI, at the start she is not it. and she finds work arounds as well as fixing some bits. so i like. can relate.
... it's worrying that Most Relatable lately have been characters who just want to watch media and play sims and maybe attain minimal function as a person.
another theme in this book is how bodies are assigned to you and dont always feel like they fit, and the ways people live with that, change bits, learn, roll with it or push back. is interesting.
I don't feel like I have much to say about it, but that might be the weather.
I didnt feel like I'd read these people before, it seemed familiar only because they are recogniseably plausibly people.
so I think I liked it.