I've been trying to find ecological fiction. The famous one is Dune, but The Terraformers puts a focus on balancing ecosystems that feels fresh and unique. People on a built world struggle to find balance when the owners of this world exploit and break it and its inhabitants try to keep things together. There's a lot of exploration ojf "personhood" as well.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/206212
> Hugo Award winner for 2022 best Novella.
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> Haven't read it myself yet, but other books by [Becky Chambers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Chambers) are quite good.