We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if we are fortunate. The title refers to Kurt Josef Waldheim's voice recording on the Voyager Golden Records, which were launched aboard the spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977, as a "message in a bottle" to any spacefaring races which might discover them in the distant future. In 2020, To Be Taught, If Fortunate was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella. To Be Taught, If Fortunate is an English language science fiction novella, in the hopepunk subgenre, by American author Becky Chambers, who also wrote the Wayfarers science fiction novel series, which won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2019.
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