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Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 · Science fiction Another first-contact story with a lone scientist at its centre, wittier and tighter.
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 · Science fiction A larger-cast space opera with a mystery that grows into a war.
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 · Science fiction Another story of a scientist who meets an alien presence and is changed by it, much stranger.