Apprendre, si par bonheur

Todavía no he leído demasiadas obras de Chambers pero sí las suficientes como para tener ya claro que me encanta su forma de entender la ciencia ficción en la que busca plantear unos escenarios con una cierta verosimilitud pero que no son en absoluto los protagonistas. La gracia de las historias de Chambers está en los personajes y en las relaciones que mantienen entre sí, en narrar una cotidianidad rodeada del sentido de la maravilla. Además su hopepunk te deja una sensación agradable por dentro mientras te evades unas horas pensando que tal vez, y sólo tal vez, un mundo mejor sea posible.

It is wonderful. I love the characters and I could really feel the ups and downs with them. The description of the sci-fi science was also very interesting and plausible in my opinion.

One of the books where I'm very sad when it's over and can't stop thinking about it for quite a while.

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?