The Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Discover the utterly charming Wayfarer series.
A collection of science fiction books set in the far future of our galaxy, Wayfarers is series that features a complex and detailed universe with new species, planets, technology, and ideas. Each book in the series is a different but connected story focusing on different characters and their adventures.
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet:
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she was looking for a quiet spot to call home, to hide from her troubled past. The mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers, life is chaotic but more or less peaceful.
That is until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime. They'll earn enough money to live comfortably for years... if they survive the trip through war-torn interstellar space. But Rosemary isn't the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed.
A Closed and Common Orbit:
Lovelace was once merely the Wayfarer's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone.
But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty.
Record of a Spaceborn Few:
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. When humanity was accepted into the galactic community, many fled the ship, but for those who stayed, they fear that their carefully cultivated way of life is under threat.
And when a disaster rocks this already fragile community, those Exodans who still call the Fleet their home can no longer avoid the inescapable question: What is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination?
The Galaxy and the Ground Within:
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.
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.