/lit/ - Literature

Here's something else to read that isn't Chinese drivel
>Downbelow Station
By C.J. Cherryh
Science fiction. First edition 1981, Hugo Award winner 1982

Setting: a space station above a planet in the TauCeti system. The planet is resource-rich and a turning point of human history, as spacefaring humanity, grown distant from mother Earth and the ruthless Company that rules space travel, forms an Union across a thin string of stations, extending into the great unknown.

Features
>space trade and space travel
>realistic depiction of life in a space station
>politics, plotting and armed conflict
>extreme suspense as the life of thousands of innocents hangs on a thread
>anthropological questions as humanity comes in contact with apelike aliens