A first contact novel that is more about learning to understand other peoples’ and cultures’ views on gender and agency than it is about aliens.
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Created by Thadd Selden
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
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The galaxy, and the ground within by Becky Chambers
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With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going …
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Surface detail by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #9)
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It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And …
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Persephone Station by Stina Leicht
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Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds becomes the focus …
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
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At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as …
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Walkaway: A Novel by Cory Doctorow
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Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis …
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A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
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Finder by Suzanne Palmer (Finder Chronicles, #1)
4 stars
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder.
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Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter (Noumenon, #1)
3 stars
With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh …
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John Dies at the End by David Wong, Jason Pargin
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"It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and …
