Record of a Spaceborn Few

This is the third in Chambers's “series” but like the other two it's standalone. I will always recommend starting with the first one (Long Way to a Small Angry Planet), but this one my be my favorite so far.

I'm trying to wrap my head how she can keep everything so human in space. You think about science fiction stories and the problems are always new ones, or focussed on what's different, but Chambers chooses to focus on what's the same. What doesn't change when we go into space.

There will always be bored teenagers, parents who struggle to lift their kids as they get bigger, naivety, brashness, braggarts, thoughtfulness, selfishness, life, and death.

I loved learning about the Fleet and its inhabitants. And like most of my favorite fiction, it gives me hope.