If what pulled you into The Wanderers was how the Eidolon mission let you live inside the astronauts’ heads—the way Helen weighs leadership and image, Yoshi turns to ritual to stay centered, and Sergei measures duty against family—then you’ll love how The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet treats a ship’s crew as its true engine. Chambers gives you the same tender attention to daily routines, private doubts, and found kinship aboard the Wayfarer, swapping specs for soul while still delivering the thrill of crossing the stars.

You felt the quiet intensity of The Wanderers when Helen questions what it means to perform astronaut-hood, when Yoshi’s calm fractures under pressure, and when Sergei’s stoicism erodes in isolation. The Sparrow brings that same interior gravity as Jesuit linguist Emilio Sandoz recounts a mission’s triumph and catastrophe. Like the Eidolon simulation’s mirror held up to its crew, this novel probes faith, purpose, and the cost of curiosity with an intimacy that lingers.

If you appreciated how The Wanderers widened its lens beyond Helen, Yoshi, and Sergei to include their loved ones—letting the mission reverberate through homes, marriages, and children—We Are Satellites will hit that same note. Pinsker alternates between parents and kids as a brain implant upends their household, mirroring how Prime Space’s Eidolon didn’t just test astronauts, but everyone tethered to them back on Earth.

Drawn to the pressure-cooker intimacy of The Wanderers—the sealed routines, the PR choreography around Prime Space, the way small frictions inside Eidolon swell into crises? The Terranauts traps its crew in a closed ecological dome while the world watches, capturing the same mix of scientific discipline, interpersonal fissures, and performative perfection that Helen and her teammates had to project for the cameras.

If the parts of The Wanderers that stuck with you were the philosophical debates—what is authenticity when you’re always on camera, what obligations do explorers owe the people watching them—Contact channels that energy. As Ellie Arroway navigates politics, media theater, and genuine awe, you’ll recognize echoes of Prime Space’s careful staging and the astronauts’ private reckoning with what it means to represent humanity.