Has A Closed and Common Orbit won any awards?

A Closed and Common Orbit won the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger. It was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2017 BSFA Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Do I need to read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet before this book?

Not strictly. A Closed and Common Orbit is a direct sequel and follows two characters introduced in The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but reviewers note it also works as a standalone story with its own self-contained plot.

A Closed and Common Orbit

Wayfarers 2

Science Fiction Space Opera

Pages: 384
Published: 2016
Language: English

Synopsis

Lovelace, once a ship's AI with a full range of human emotions, finds herself in a new, illegal synthetic body after a disaster. Isolated and grappling with her new existence, she finds an unexpected ally in Pepper, the engineer who saved her. Together, they navigate a world where Lovelace must hide her true nature.