Becky Chambers’s “City Novel”, such as Mieville’s Bas-Lag novels, or Chabon’s Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Can also be compared to the Dispossessed, in that it depicts a sort of communist “ambiguous utopia”, but without the revolutionary anarchism. Record of a Spaceborn Few focuses more on a resource-poor, communist society’s integration into a futuristic capitalist society. Can also be compared to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora (but with more, better characters) & Le Guin’s “Paradises Lost” (but with less plot). Like all the Becky Chambers books I’ve read, plot takes a backseat to character & setting development, which works for me. Something about this series scratches some of the same itches as Niven’s Known Space, but lacks some of Niven’s hard to stomach 1970s hobbyhorses (e.g. overpopulation, libertarianism). Finally, I must note that Record of a Spaceborn Few is the first Chambers novel I've read that I could not find any Futurama references in. Unless choko is supposed to be Slurm?