Interview with Becky Chambers - author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet!
Becky Chambers is the multiple-Hugo award winning author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet; A Closed and Common Orbit; A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and many more!
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Becky Chambers, Brent Gaisford, Cody Troyer
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Show Notes
All of Becky's writing is excellent, but if you haven't read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet it's a great place to start. It's a wonderful, warm, and character-driven space opera that follows the tight-knit crew of a wormhole-drilling starship working their way across the galaxy.
We talked with Becky about:
- Growing up in a 'space' family
- Going from self-publishing to winning a Hugo
- Her process for creating her wonderful characters
- Using the search for identity as central conflict
- Becky's biggest influences
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