Apendre, si tenim sort

Paperback, 144 pages

Català language

Published March 2024 by Mai Més.

ISBN:
978-84-10254-02-2
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Tot just començar el segle XXII, la ciència fa un gran descobriment en el camp dels vols espacials tripulats. Mitjançant un mètode revolucionari anomenat somaformació, els astronautes poden sobreviure en entorns hostils fora de la Terra utilitzant suplementacions biològiques sintètiques. Quan la fragilitat del cos ja no és un factor limitant, els éssers humans poden explorar per fi exoplanetes propers que des de fa molt se sospita que acullen vida. L’Ariadne és una exploradora així. En una missió per fer l’estudi ecològic de quatre planetes habitables a quinze anys llum de la Terra, ella i els seus companys de tripulació dormen quan estan en trànsit, i es desperten cada vegada amb característiques físiques diferents. Però mentre ells passaven per diferents formes i temps, la vida a la Terra també ha canviat. Davant de la possibilitat de tornar a un planeta que ha oblidat les persones que n’han sortit, l’Ariadne comença …

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Not my favourite Chambers read

An astronaut chronicles her mission to far-flung worlds, and desperately hopes that someone reads it.

I didn't enjoy this as much as I've relished previous chambers novels. Perhaps it was the novella format, or maybe the subject. It's still a very Chambers book, but somehow missing whatever gives me a frisson of delight every time I finish one.

Glad I read it, but unlike every other Chambers book I've read, I'll probably not reread it. 5 stars to the title however, love it and where it comes from, and that did elicit a shiver of pleasure!

A deeply personal plea for space exploration funding

Unlike the super-high-tech far future of her Wayfarers series, Chambers focuses on just the near-future of the human race. Seen from a team of exoplanet explorers surveying alien life, To Be Taught paints a future where governments fail in the mission to space but the human spirit leads ordinary people to crowdfund the mission instead. And when the interstellar mission outlasts human lifespans, government lifespans and even societal lifespans, Chambers leaves us with a deeply personal question, ask from both her perspective and that of the protagonist, chronologically ancient, barely human and too distant to ever return home: how much is space exploration worth?