update: the library director was in today and showed me his secret space opera hoard. new additions to the list:
- August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Alex White
- You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
(haven’t read either yet, but he highly recommends)
he also had two of the books i’d been wanting to include in the display!
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
