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To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't be...

Becky Chambers

To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't be...

Tags: colonization, human nature

That's not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it's... it doesn't even compare.''Why? Because it's worse?'She nodded.'But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I've broken...

Becky Chambers

That's not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it's... it doesn't even compare.''Why? Because it's worse?'She nodded.'But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I've broken...

Tags: aliens, mental health, pain, relative

About Author
Becky Chambers (born May 3, 1985) is an American science fiction writer. She is the author of the Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series as well as novellas including To Be Taught, if Fortunate (2019) and the Monk & Robot series, which begins with the Hugo Award-winning A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021). She is known for her imaginative world-building and character-driven stories.

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

Becky Chambers

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

Tags: experiences, feelings

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

Becky Chambers

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

Tags: distance, space, stars

She would never, ever understand the idea that a child, especially an infant, was of more value than an adult who had already gained all the skills needed to benefit the community. The death of potent...

Becky Chambers

She would never, ever understand the idea that a child, especially an infant, was of more value than an adult who had already gained all the skills needed to benefit the community. The death of potent...

Tags: adulthood, childhood

Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

Becky Chambers

Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

Tags: body

Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.

Becky Chambers

Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.

Tags: relationships