Love. This review, and this book. I loved how re-set my expectations were on assuming everyone was female and then learning, hey, not. This is not something I've had to deal with personally, or at least not something any of my friends have shared with me, so it certainly felt new. And feeling so much emotion for a ship who is not a human but is more human that plenty of other characters floating out there.

My knowledge of sci fi is also too limited but there's a book by Ursula Le Guin that I have read which also made me think about gender a lot, The Left Hand of Darkness. I don't remember it well, but I suspect it's worth a re-read.