A Closed and Common Orbit

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Published Jan. 25, 2017 by Tantor Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-5159-6642-5
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Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace was forced to reboot and reset. Now housed in an illegal synthetic body, she's never felt so isolated. But Lovelace is not alone. Pepper, an engineer who risked her life to reinstall Lovelace's program, has remained by her side and is determined to help her.

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Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

A wonderful sequel

This book went an entirely different direction from the first in the series, yet it was just as enjoyable. My favorite part of the book was the structure in which the two stories were told in parallel, coming together into a great finish. Can't wait for the third one!

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'GoodReads'

A wonderful sequel

This book went an entirely different direction from the first in the series, yet it was just as enjoyable. My favorite part of the book was the structure in which the two stories were told in parallel, coming together into a great finish. Can't wait for the third one!

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

Brilliant. Satisfying and brilliant. At first I wasn't sure how thrilled I'd be with a story that, at least in its premise, I'd've assumed would be more suited to the short-story format, but I'm delighted to be wrong; Chambers did an excellent job fleshing out a deeply intimate story of love and belonging in a future we'd be honored to herald.

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

I didn't get what the fuss was about Angry Planet, really.. it was a fun read, nice humanist (alienist) SF, but not very deep. This sequel (reading Angry Planet first is not really necessary) takes most everything that was good about Angry Planet and adds lots of depth in character growth, parallel storylines, philosphical questions. Devoured 300 pages in less than a day. Recommended if the world is getting you down.

(Also, one of the protaginists is a perpetual motion machine and also becomes effectively a pregnant virgin at the end. Funny bone tickled.)

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

This is the sequel to The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. If you haven't read that book this review might be a little spoilery.

At the end of the book, the Artificial Intelligence, Lovelace, that runs the spaceship is put into a body kit to be transferred off of the ship. For Lovelace this is a huge adjustment. She is used to monitoring the vastness of space. She is used to having cameras in all the rooms of the ship. She is used to having a constant flow of information from the data stream that she is hooked into. Now she sees only through her eyes. She doesn't know the answer to any question that she is asked. She feels fragile and vulnerable.

She is taken in by Pepper, an engineer that helped with her transfer. Pepper takes her to her home and tries to teach her how …

Review of 'A Closed and Common Orbit' on 'Goodreads'

Common Orbit is just as good, compassionate and lovely as Angry Planet. I'm just overflowing with love for these characters; despite everything they go through they remain good people.

The story uses two timelines, one following on from the end of the previous book and the other is 20 years earlier and focuses on Pepper's past. Pepper feels she is the ideal person to introduce Sidra to the world because she was brought up by AI. Which AI is not as obvious as it first seems. Pepper’s early life was in a factory sorting scrap, with all the other genetically engineered Janes. I loved her story of how she got to be where she is now; full of true bravery and friendship. Insanely gripping too, I often forgot I knew the outcome.

I love how Becky tries to view the universe in other than human eyes. Sidra doesn't experience her …

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