The novel “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” by Becky Chambers was published for the first time in 2014. It’s the first book in the Wayfarers series.

Ashby Santoso is the captain of the starship Wayfarer and decided to hire a new clerk to fix the paperwork aboard the ship. Rosemary Harper joins his crew, composed of people belonging to various species, and even before dealing with the dangers of interstellar travel she has to learn to handle the relationships with them.

The Wayfarer gets a contract to open a new route to an area of ​​the galaxy where a species has long been engaged in a war among factions. That’s a remarkable opportunity because the gain will be very high but nobody can say how risky it is to travel in the war area and the problems can arrive even in other areas of the space.