FORWARD THINKING By Tori Morrow Writer, YouTuber, and Science Fiction aficionado Tori Morrow shares some of her favourite novels in the genre - for longterm fans and readers who are new to the genre alike. Find more of Tori’s writing on her website: www.torimorrow.com and get more book recommendations from her at YouTube.com/torimorrow.
-1To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers To Be Taught, If Fortunate is an excellent sci-fi novella, and one that is a great place to start, not only for beginners in the sci-fi genre, but also for readers who are long-term SF fans who may not want to dive
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into Chambers’ Wayfarer series just yet. The novella follows a crew of four astronauts as they survey the ecology of four exoplanets that are believed to sustain human life. En route to each new planet, the crew adapts their bodies to new planetary environments through a technology known as “somaforming.” During a routine survey mission on one of the planets, though, we learn that Earth has stopped
responding to the crew’s messages. The story unfolds through one of the crew members, Ariadne, as she documents their experience on each planet in the hope that Earth might still be listening. In under two-hundred p a g e s , To B e Ta u g h t , I f Fortunate explores the impact (for better or worse) that humans have on an unfamiliar planet’s ecosystem, and leaves the reader wondering about the future of our world.
