I read the 4th Becky Chambers Wayfarer series, the concluding novel. I'm half repulsed at the programmatic wokeness, half impressed and hopeful. You can see the quotes below that echo the same ambivalence. I googled "books that make you more intellectually flexible." I didn't see these books listed on them. You don't have to like the empathy, the gently encouraging self monologues, the teamwork, the communication, but every once in a while I wasn't bored. Chambers a lesbian author and she wants a world where all kinds of attraction and coupling is explored. Not quite the L Word in space. Even in this future galactic consciousness, there are prohibitions against interspecies flinky, so you can still make people uncomfortable. You mean squares are universal? The square community is going to hate these books. Someone messaged me to give a spoiler to the first one, some crusader from the square community, but I read Romeo and Juliet even though Shakespeare spoi...