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Nice people (and artificial intelligences) lead relatively quiet lives doing nice things in A Closed and Common Orbit, the 2017 Hugo finalist and continuation of the Wayfarer series. It’s like an episode of Firefly or a volume in the Penric and Desdemona series by Lois MacMaster Bujold or Jack Devit’s Alex Benedict series. The monikers “comfort sci-fi” and “up lit” has been applied to these books, sometimes as a burn, as they lack huge battles, robot uprisings, sturm and drang displays of emotion, or post-apocalyptic scavenging that seem part and parcel of science fiction. But while A Closed and Common Orbit is sweet and its intimate portrait of the current daily lives of the main characters is touchingly pleasant, two of the nicest characters have truly horrifying past lives. We discover their back story and for those two humans, being nice doesn’t mean they are bland, simply that they are living a life of profound empathy and with gratitude for being able to being able to choose to live a different life than what society intended.