The novel “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” by Becky Chambers was published for the first time in 2014. It’s the first book in the Wayfarers series.

Ashby Santoso is the captain of the starship Wayfarer and decided to hire a new clerk to fix the paperwork aboard the ship. Rosemary Harper joins his crew, composed of people belonging to various species, and even before dealing with the dangers of interstellar travel she has to learn to handle the relationships with them.

The Wayfarer gets a contract to open a new route to an area of ​​the galaxy where a species has long been engaged in a war among factions. That’s a remarkable opportunity because the gain will be very high but nobody can say how risky it is to travel in the war area and the problems can arrive even in other areas of the space.

The novel “Foreigner” by Robert J. Sawyer was published for the first time in 1994. It’s the third book of the Quintaglio Ascension trilogy and follows “Fossil Hunter”.

Afsan has an accident and is seriously injured but survives and the damaged tissues start regenerating. Unexpectedly, even his eyes start growing back but when they are complete he still can’t see anything. His problem may be mental, so he starts seeing Mokleb, who is developing the new science of psychoanalysis.

Novato continues her study of the Jijaki ark with her assistants but accidentally they activate a system that’s still working which begins the formation of a tower that extends upwards into space. Toroca continues his explorations and in a remote archipelago discovers the existence of another species of sentient saurians but the other Quintaglios react with territorial fury just seeing them.