![]() ![]() Meanwhile his best mate Kizzy grew up with two dads. He’s fiercely proud of his identity as his mother refused to let him be either euthanised or ‘modified’. is a small person called Jenks who sports tattoos and a Mohican haircut. ‘ With as much of a hotchpotch as Human genetics were, lighter shades were known to pop up here and there.’ Chambers revels in that ‘hotch-potch’ but amongst the crew, the white guy is the exception: ‘a pink man bred for tedious labwork and a sunless sky’. Chambers looks around her and sees people of all colours and sizes, the full spectrum of neurodiversity, sexuality and bodily forms. What’s fresh and engaging is how diverse Chamber’s vision of humanity is. The way the ship’s crew spark off each other fuels the narrative’s warp drive for the whole voyage. It strongly reminded me of the ensemble casts of TV shows like ‘ Firefly’ or ‘ The Expanse’ with a dash of ‘ Star Wars’ movie wackiness thrown in. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is an exuberant space adventure in which the journey and the crew really are the point of the tale. ![]()
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