Becky Chambers

Becky Chambers

Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, among others.

Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she’s now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

All Books By Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit
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A Closed and Common Orbit
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Rachel Dulude
  • Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 21, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (39264 ratings)
(39264 ratings)
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! A Publishers Weekly “Best Books of 2017” pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger! Embark on an... Read more
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Em Grosland
  • Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: July 12, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (17989 ratings)
(17989 ratings)
“Tender and healing… I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” –Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built “This hopeful listen, full of humor, illuminates a... Read more
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Em Grosland
  • Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: July 13, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (42952 ratings)
(42952 ratings)
“Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio.”–AudioFile Magazine In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers’s delightful new Monk and Robot... Read more
Record of a Spaceborn Few
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Record of a Spaceborn Few
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Rachel Dulude
  • Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 09, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (25664 ratings)
(25664 ratings)
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! Brimming with Chambers’ signature blend of heart-warming character relationships and dazzling adventure, Record of a Spaceborn few is the third standalone installment of the Wayfarers series, set in... Read more
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Rachel Dulude
  • Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: April 20, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (13588 ratings)
(13588 ratings)
Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos–one often mentioned, but not yet explored–in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming... Read more
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Rachel Dulude
  • Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 21, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (76211 ratings)
(76211 ratings)
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal‘s Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015,... Read more
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
  • By: Becky Chambers
  • Narrator: Brittany Pressley
  • Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: September 03, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (22535 ratings)
(22535 ratings)
“Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition.” — Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the... Read more

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Anti-Pluralism The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself ... Read Book
The Shepherd of Guadaloupe A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. “He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg and the first time for him to be on deck. The ridged and waved Atlantic, but for its turbulence, looked like the desert undulating away to the ... Read Book
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Crown of One Hundred Kings A lost princess . . .Tessana Allisand had a family once. A home. A title. A future. Until one night when everything she loved was taken from her. Secreted away to an isolated monastery in the farthest region of the realm, Tess was raised in the silence of monks and the loneliness of tragedy. And there she would have stayed if the dark magic that killed her family hadn’t finally found her.An ... Read Book
Inception and Philosophy Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan’s four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another’s dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know what is real? Can you be held morally responsible for what you do in dreams? What is the nature of ... Read Book
Treasure in Paradise Tj Jensen and her family head to Turtle Cove Resort for summer vacation, but their plans for rest and relaxation are thwarted when they find a dead treasure hunter in the attic of the resort’s main house. Initially vowing not to get involved, Tj quickly changes her tune when the Gull Island deputy on the case closes it after a bare bones investigation.All evidence points to foul play, and ... Read Book
The Idiot Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, which explored the mind of a murderer, Fyodor Dostoevsky produced another masterpiece: The Idiot. This time the author portrays a truly beautiful soul and one of Dostoevsky’s greatest characters-Prince Muishkin, a saintly, Christ-like, yet deeply human figure.The story begins when Muishkin arrives on Russian soil after a stay in a Swiss ... Read Book
Into the Glades New York Times bestselling author Laura Sebastian makes her middle grade debut with an emotional fantasy adventure about four friends who journey through a magical, Everglades-inspired swampland to break a curse tied to the death of a loved one. Best friends Cordelia and Larkin have always called the Glades—a peaceful swamp full of magical creatures—home. But when Oziris, Cordelia’s father ... Read Book
The Five-Forty-Eight Here is the preface to twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates — with unequaled grace and tenderness — the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, “These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny ... Read Book
Tanqueray “These bawdy, gritty tales of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s will captivate listeners, but it’s Johnson who is the hero of this story. Listeners will relish every minute.”- Library Journal “Humans of New York fans will delight in hearing Stephanie ‘Tanqueray’ Johnson, once one of the city’s best known burlesque dancers, tell her triumphant story.”-People MagazineThis program ... Read Book
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