It’s a love letter to science, and a deep dive into some big questions about the nature of exploration. It begins roughly a century from now, during a time in which space exploration is citizen-funded and astronauts are (mildly) genetically engineered to survive life on other worlds. To Be Taught is about a crew of astronauts on an ecological survey of an exoplanet system fourteen light-years from Earth. So, what is To Be Taught, If Fortunate about, and when and where does it take place? I always like to begin with a summary of the plot. Having written three novels in her sci-fi space opera series, Wayfarers, writer Becky Chambers is taking a short break of sorts with To Be Taught, If Fortunate ( paperback, Kindle), a novella she describes as “near-ish future astronaut fiction.” In the following email interview, she discusses the origins and influences on this story, as well as how it’s unconnected but still relates to her Wayfarers novels.
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