@neil I didn't write it, but have you read A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys? DRM-free here: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-half-built-garden It's like a more emotionally nuanced version of Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, with queer community building, river watershed anarcho-states, dangerous Reddit algorithms, utopian NASA scientists, and of course, aliens.