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alobearThe Vela is a sci-fi audiobook co-written by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon and SL Huang, which I was very excited to discover because I love Becky Chambers in particular, and the story sounded interesting.
It's about a space mercenary and the son of a planetary administrator going on a mission to find a missing spaceship full of refugees from a dying world.
It sets out its themes - immigration, environmental collapse, racism, AIs taking people's jobs, societal inequality, cultural insensitivity - very clearly right from the start in a way that's not exactly subtle. And those are all important things to consider and discuss.
But I couldn't get hold of the story somehow and kept finding my brain sliding off it. I didn't connect to any of the characters and I just wasn't interested in spending time with them. So I unfortunately decided to give up on it around the 25% mark.
It's about a space mercenary and the son of a planetary administrator going on a mission to find a missing spaceship full of refugees from a dying world.
It sets out its themes - immigration, environmental collapse, racism, AIs taking people's jobs, societal inequality, cultural insensitivity - very clearly right from the start in a way that's not exactly subtle. And those are all important things to consider and discuss.
But I couldn't get hold of the story somehow and kept finding my brain sliding off it. I didn't connect to any of the characters and I just wasn't interested in spending time with them. So I unfortunately decided to give up on it around the 25% mark.
