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Reminds me of when a recent sci-fi author wrote a first person novel with an androgynously named protagonist. They didn’t ever directly refer or allude to the character’s sex in the novel. Fan communities and book clubs spent months realizing they’d subconsciously given the protagonist pronouns in their head. (It’s less awkward than it sounds due to the sci-fi premise.) The author only addressed it months after it came out. They got both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to create identical audiobooks for the sequel.
What books are those? Sounded like murdebot diaries until the end.
Search for "wil wheaton amber benson audiobook verge" and their story on the book and its sequel should be the first thing that pops up.
Oh, the sequel to Lock In, by Scalzi. I haven't read Lock In yet, but I know about it. It would probably have been a Hugo nominee except a whole bunch of right wing types banded together to vote for books that were less inclusivity-minded. They were successful, and Scalzi was one who lost out. Here's an article from the time it was happening.