by Liz Williams
I like Williams' dedication to not doing an all American, all Western European future earth, but to be honest I remember nothing about this book except that it takes place in India, there's an alien contact, and it didn't seem to be exoticizing or finger-pointing unduly at the caste system.
Intriguing concepts, but a little emotionally distant from all the characters, human and alien alike. Human beings are actually just the seeded colony of a vast, distant alien society, and we've finally come online enough to communicate with this society. Except, hey, unlike the vast majority of the...