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Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers.
Such amazing, lovely sci-fi that touches on so many topics.
Last one is based in a really nice intergalactic truck stop. Or like an airport hotel maybe.
And I didn't realise it until my second read-through, but it's basically all about cross-species accessibility/accomodations.
Really beautiful stuff.
I really liked how positive they all were without being relentlessly upbeat, and that they're mostly just small character stories in their universe instead of grand space opera stuff. It's just people working through their problems and they happen to be in space and sometimes have to worry about that.
It's also a neat way to do a 'shared universe'(?). Other than the second, none of the books are direct sequels. It's someone who's related to / knows a character from another book but there's not a grand overarching plot or anything. Reminds me a bit of some pieces of the old Star Wars Expanded universe where sometimes an author just wanted to tell a bottle story that wasn't concerned with Jedi/Sith politics. ...or I guess Tokyo Drift... :P