I wanted to ask this in a while but I always forgot it before when I visited the comm. Would you consider some little changes? Like adding ship matchings together with character matchings, or turn the exchange into a gen and romantic ships exchange?

Actually my reasoning was that, being such small an exchange, opening to gen and romantic ships could possibly lure in more people to signup. But I understand if you prefer to keep things the way they are. Also, sorry for commenting with my question in the wrong post, oops. :(

Sorry to jump in here! But I was wondering if I could suggest a change in regards to matching on characters. If it is likely that a person is going to be matched to a request where they did not offer the characters, would it be possible to contact that participant before assignments go out and ask if they would like to offer those characters? That way, it's less of a surprise when the assignment goes out and it contains characters you didn't offer.

Though ideally I'd like to match on characters, I appreciate that this exchange is pretty tiny so that might not be an option!

Uh, it's a little confusing when the top post in the community is outdated...

I'll start!

Spin series (Chris Moriarty)
Caterine Li solves intrigue, with loads of action and ethics! Kinda-sorta-aliens! Posthuman clone societies! FTL! Plot!

Confederation series (Tanya Huff) (mistakenly labeled as Valor series on AO3)
Aliens! Stuff blowing up! Asshole sentient plastic aliens! Competence!

Europa Report (2013)
HARD SF MOVIE! People persevering with the mission regardless of difficulties! Europa!

Iron Sunrise & Singularity Sky (Charles Stross)
Space Opera with an awesome and competent main character! Politics! Interesting worldbuilding!

Honor Harrington series (David Weber)
Stuff blowing up! Loyalty! Competence! Sprawling plots and heroism!

Long Earth series (Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter)
Countless alt-histories for Earth and Mars, only one of which features humans! Easy space travel! Mars expeditions! Alt-biology Earth aliens!

Quantum Thief trilogy (Hannu Rajaniemi)
Hard SF set in the Solar System! Loads of intriguing cultures! Action! Plot! Cybernetics!

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I'd love to see what someone could do with the gorgeous and fascinating Terran Trade Authority series. I came across the original books at a vintage book show last year (alas, out of my price range) and have been pining after the entire concept ever since.