A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. Illegally body-having AI tries to find her place in the world on a trade planet, living with a clone who escaped from a fringe weirdo human colony and her illegally gene-modded boyfriend.

Also A Bug Collection, a collection of short stories penned by my creative writing teacher’s late wife. He recommended it to me as we discussed my workshop submission in the Zoom meeting, because my protagonist was a fantasy bug race person who is really anxious and bad with people. It’s a collection of short stories about insects having little personal dramas, identity crises, mental health struggles, love problems, etc. It’s actually really touching so far.

Also started reading The Scar by China Mieville. I loved the last book in the Bas-Lag trilogy and loved it (hell of a downer ending though). This one’s great so far, but I just started.