Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate is a wonderful and ethereal-feeling story about time and connection, but it’s mostly a speculative book about science, which is part of why I liked it so much. You’ll see this as we keep going, eventually. Terrible fantasy is my jam more than anything, but I absolutely adore speculative science. Technically speculative is a whole part of the genre "science fiction," but what I mean is I adore stories that are about science. Not just new and inventive biology or technology or whatnot, but about the act of science. I plan on reviewing Into the Drowning Deep later and I'll go into more detail on that one, but suffice to say. This is a genre that I absolutely adore. And so I say that I know what I'm talking about when I say that speculative science fiction can be really bad if it's not done right. It's a hard genre to do! To Be Taught, If Fortunate is not really bad. It is really good. I really, really liked this b...
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