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Rated Moss'd in Space 6/10

This is a review for the audiobook so I will also include my notes on the performance.

This book was recommended on social media for folks who like salty machine intelligences. Having just finished the Murderbot Diaries for the fourth time I knew what this meant.

This is also my first foray into the “cosy sci-fi”. I’m planning to write a small essay to see if I can identify the key elements of this new genre.

This is a gentle(ish) tale with no gore, with violence kept at a minimum and often resolved without bloodshed (there’s a backstory element that helps define the protagonist’s personality but it’s obvious they have recovered from that event).

It’s a lovely story of two broken souls helping mend one another. Friends and alliances are made a long the way. There a degree of tension: Torian (the protagonist) is racing against time to save her sister.

I loved the optimism and hope the characters bring to the book. And in these dark times it shines like the utopian future Star Trek tried to give us albeit at a smaller scale.

The audiobook has two performers: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick and Natalie Naudus. I’m not sure what the arrangement was (I don’t have the book), but it appears that the two actors alternate on most chapters. It was refreshing to have the characters voiced differently by Dylan and Natalie. There’s no ambient sound just the spoken word.

If you need a bit of cosy, this might be the book for you.

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Published 2026-09-11 21:54 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere