Five books for fans of "Project Hail Mary"

At Book Riot Liberty Hardy tagged five "great reads about searching for new habitable planets, or encountering aliens, or both." One entry on the list:

Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

[A] junior anthropologist sent to observe life on an alien planet must break the rules and get involved with his subjects. The locals think he’s a sorcerer, but Elder Nyr is just a scientist trying to report his findings, who realizes he must interfere if he wants to save them from what they think is a demon that has been terrorizing their lands.

Read about the other entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue