To Be Taught, If Fortunate (2019)

Ariadne and her three crewmates change their bodies to study other worlds with unfamiliar conditions. Chambers makes the survey work itself compelling, through careful attention to life that need not resemble Earth's or exist for humanity's benefit. Long intervals between messages also change the explorers' relationship with home. Choose this standalone novella for scientific curiosity joined to restraint, and for a small expedition whose most difficult questions concern what it owes the places it visits.