>>8956303
I've been keeping up with "The Howler from the Void" for a while, and it's just fantastic.
I really enjoy language stuff, so a large focus being: figuring out the howlers language, while also throwing the reader straight into the scent based communication of the insect aliens in medias res, and letting the reader slowly figure out the meanings of the different words on their own from the story's context clues, 'Darmok and Jalad' style, is right up my alley!
Gripping story with a bunch of interesting and very different characters that one can relate to in various ways on all the different sides of the conflict.

The author does great stuff, and if one really likes bug aliens, and don't mind if the big, juicy abdomen is attached to a cute alien boy, I greatly recommend his "unprofessional" series. They are a similarly great read, but significantly more horny.