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Looking for some book recommendations:
Trying for some non-military based space opera. Some recent ones I've enjoyed are Annihilation Aria by Mike Underwood, the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell, and not sure if it counts as space opera quite but get the same feeling in Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut books.