Becky Chambers (author)

Becky Chambers (born 1985)[1] is an American science fiction writer, and the author of the Hugo-award winning Wayfarers series. She is known for her imaginative world-building and character-driven stories.

Becky Chambers
BornRebecca Marie Chambers 
1985  (age 36)
Southern California 
OccupationScience fiction writer 
Awards
Websitehttps://www.otherscribbles.com 

Career

Chambers worked in theater management and as a freelance writer before self publishing her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, in 2014 after successfully raising funds on Kickstarter.[2] The novel received critical acclaim and a Kitschies nomination, becoming the first self-published novel to do so.[3] This prompted the novel to be picked up and re-published by Hodder & Stoughton and Harper Voyager.[4] The novel was the first book in the Wayfarer series, which so far includes two sequels, A Closed and Common Orbit, in 2016 and Record of a Spaceborn Few, in 2018. The series won the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series. She published a novella, To Be Taught, if Fortunate, in August 2019, with a story un-connected to the Wayfarers books. In July 2018 it was announced that she signed a two-book deal with Tor Books,[5] with the first book, A Psalm for the Wild-Built,[6] due to be published in May 2021.

Style and themes

Her Wayfarers series novels take place in a fictional universe, governed by the Galactic Commons to which humans are relative newcomers. She has been lauded for the strong world-building in the series, including multiple unique alien races.[7] She has been noted for the complex and likeable characters who drive the story.[8] Her work has been alternatively criticized and praised for the deliberate, character-driven pacing and lack of the propulsive plots typical of other space opera novels.[9][10]

Awards

Won

Nominated

Bibliography

Novels

Wayfarers series

Novellas

Short Stories
  • “A Good Heretic” (a Wayfarers story), Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, 2019
  • “Last Contact,” 2001: An Odyssey In Words, 2018
  • “The Deckhand, The Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts,” Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-Away Galaxies, 2017
  • “Chrysalis,” Jurassic London’s Stocking Stuffer, 2014

Personal life

Chambers was born in 1985 in Southern California and grew up outside Los Angeles.[1] She moved to San Francisco to study theater arts at the University of San Francisco.[1] She has lived in Iceland and Scotland before returning to California, where she currently resides with her wife.[11][1]

References
  1. "Becky Chambers: To Be Spaceborn". Locus Magazine. December 17, 2018. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  2. "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet". Kickstarter. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  3. Flood, Alison (2015-02-13). "Self-published sci-fi debut kickstarts on to Kitschies shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  4. Liptak, Andrew (September 12, 2015). "The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet Is This Year's Most Delightful Space Opera". Io9. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  5. "Announcing a Pair of Solarpunk Novellas from Becky Chambers". Tor. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  6. "Introducing Monk & Robot, a New Series by Becky Chambers". Tor. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  7. June 2017, M. L. Clark Issue: 5 (2017-06-09). "A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  8. Roberts, Adam (2016-10-22). "A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers review – an AI on the run". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  9. Alexander, Niall (2016-07-05). "The Joy of the Journey: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers". Tor.com. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  10. admin (2016-03-12). "Adrienne Martini reviews Becky Chambers". Locus Online. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  11. "Becky Chambers". HarperCollins. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
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