Becky Chambers
6 Quotations from Becky Chambers
| ansible n. | 2021 Galaxy & the Ground Within 16 She gestured to the panel, and looked at the incoming call data. A local transmission, not an ansible call. |
| Earthan adj. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 141 Isabel opened her mouth, about to detail the issue—this one had to do with Earthen historical eras, which was always a thorny thing to delineate—but she took one look at Tamsin and changed her mind. [Ibid. 332] Imagine if the Earthen builders had known their descendants would choose to remain in space, that this transitory life satisfied them, even when empty ground lay within reach. What would the human species look like today were that the case? |
| grounder n. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 117 Young grounders had made a thing of showing up on the Fleet’s doorstep hoping to find kin or connection or some other such fluff, succeeding at little except treating everyone’s home like a zoo before learning there wasn't any romance in it and heading back to cushier lives where every problem could be answered with creds. [Ibid. 316] Without us out here, the grounders will forget within a few generations. We’ll become just another story, and not one that seems relevant. |
| grounder n. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 261 She was from the Fleet, through and through. She wondered what other facts about grounder life her daughter hadn’t gleaned. |
| sapient n. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 69 He’d seen both back in Central space—sapients picking through trash or carrying everything they owned. |
| space-born adj. 1 | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 334 We, too, took the ways of our planet with us. And so, too, go the Exodans, a spaceborn people who balk at abandoning an environment inspired by a planet that, to most, may as well be myth. |