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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES. Winner of The Kitschie Red Tentacle for Best Novel.

The stunning finale to the award-winning Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

When a freak technological failure halts traffic to and from the planet Gora, three strangers are thrown together unexpectedly, with seemingly nothing to do but wait.

Pei is a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, torn between her duty to her people, and her duty to herself.

Roveg is an exiled artist, with a deeply urgent, and longed for, family appointment to keep.

Speaker has never been far from her twin but now must endure the unendurable: separation.

Under the care of Ouloo, an enterprising alien, and Tupo, her occasionally helpful child, the trio are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they might be to one another.

Together they will discover that even in the vastness of space, they’re not alone.

PRAISE FOR THE WAYFARERS

‘Becky Chambers is a wonder, and I feel better for having her books in my life’ JOHN CONNOLLY

‘In a word, brilliant’ ANDREW CALDECOTT

‘A quietly profound, humane tour de force’ GUARDIAN

‘Chambers is simply an exceptional talent’ TOR.COM

‘Becky Chambers takes space opera in a whole new and unexpected direction’ BEN AARONOVITCH

Publisher Review

PRAISE FOR WAYFARERS - : The best speculative fiction currently being written . . . Becky Chambers is a wonder, and I feel better for having her books in my life - John Connolly, author of the Charlie Parker Thrillers Richly human, believable [and] compelling . . . underlain with a deep compassion and a feeling for community - Tor.com An intensely powerful and multifaceted meditation on time, history, change, and memory, leavened with a welcome touch of humor . . . This is a superb work from one of the genre's rising stars - Publishers Weekly Terrific. . . a masterly exploration of characterisation and diversity wrapped in intensity, heartbreak and tension - Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat