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The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
4.0

There just aren't enough books discussing women and wombs and bodily autonomy. Fortunately, Kameron Hurley is singlehandedly writing against that trend with every series she publishes. Tangled up in the questions of selfhood and identity that make up the arc of the story are also questions of biology, maternity, what it is women bear in every sense of the word, and the relationship between motherhood and sacrifice.
Though this is relatively straightforward for Hurley, the book itself is weird and complicated and the kind of story only she could tell.
Also, I feel like I've gotten a lot of viscera in space recently, but that might just be The Expanse and Lesbians in Space back to back.