Space exploration of exoplanets with life. Not with space navies and guns blazing, but crowdsourced and ethical by design. To Be Taught, If Fortunate is a fun novella. Very different from the previous work by Becky Chambers that I read, the also very enjoyable Wayfarers series (The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, Record of a Spaceborn Few)