Station Eternity: Mur Lafferty

This book has been on my TBR stack for a while; I borrowed it from my son soon after he bought at the Planned Parenthood book sale two years ago. I wanted to read this book because I was looking for science fiction books set on a space station. This fits the bill for sure, but it is also a first contact story and a mystery. There are even some elements of spy fiction, since the US military sends a spy to the station with several missions. At the beginning of the book, the setting is the space station, Station Eternity. The station is sentient, and has control over who can board the space station. Most of the beings on board the space station are aliens. There are many different alien species on the station; one of them is the Gneiss, who are very large and look like rocks. Another species is very small. They resemble the wasps on earth and are called the Sundry. Some of the Sundry are blue, some are silver, and they have their differences. Initially, only three humans have been…