If you loved how Valerie Black pulls together an all-woman crew and refuses to wait for permission, you’ll click with Elma York fighting to become an astronaut after a meteorite-triggered climate catastrophe. Like the backlash Valerie and Naomi face from a reactionary regime, Elma battles institutional bias inside the International Aerospace Coalition—and refuses to sit down. The blend of personal resolve, public pressure, and headline-making test flights gives the same charge you got from that stolen-ship launch.

You were hooked by the way the all-female crew must reckon with food cycles, air, and biocontamination on the way to a habitable world. In Aurora, a generation ship nearing Tau Ceti confronts failing ecosystems and hard choices—told with on-board technical detail and human stakes. As Freya and the ship’s AI grapple with breakdowns, it echoes the life-or-death resource management and moral decisions that shadow the Goldilocks mission.

If Valerie’s rule-bending theft and the crew’s secrets had you savoring the gray areas, meet Cara—who traverses parallel Earths for a corporation that exploits the poor. Like the betrayals and hard bargains aboard the stolen ship, Cara’s survival depends on lies, loyalties, and choosing the least-worst option under surveillance and class cruelty. It’s sharp, propulsive, and morally thorny in the same satisfying way.

If the claustrophobic dynamics among Valerie, Naomi, and the rest of the crew drew you in—every side glance loaded, every confession risky—this is for you. Three astronauts (Helen, Yoshi, Sergei) undergo an ultra-realistic Mars mission simulation where interpersonal cracks widen under pressure. Like the simmering resentments and confidences onboard the stolen craft, the drama here is intimate, precise, and riveting.

Goldilocks’ clashes with a reactionary government and corporate agendas mirror Mahit Dzmare’s tightrope walk as an ambassador inside the Teixcalaanli Empire. Where Valerie gambles everything against political gatekeepers, Mahit juggles conspiracy, succession crises, and a compromised implant holding her predecessor’s memories. It’s deft, high-stakes maneuvering with the same smart, subversive pulse.