Record Of A Spaceborn Few

"The “Wayfarers” series has always had a utopian heart – a series of novels that exist to put human beings in bad situations and then watch as they think, debate, sulk, problem-solve and innovate their way out of them. Record is the third in the series, and sees the human fleet of generation ships becoming part of a larger community of space-faring species. It is brainy, tinkery sci-fi that excels at both character development and complex world-building, imagining a gritty, nuts-and-bolts working environment where everything, from orbital mechanics to the disposal of dead bodies, becomes integral parts of the plot."