Light from Uncommon Stars is a science fiction and fantasy novel by American author and poet Ryka Aoki.

As Satomi teaches Nguyen, she also meets Lan Tran, a starship captain and refugee disguised as a doughnut shop owner, who has brought her family to Earth to escape war and a deadly plague.

The two strike up a tenuous flirtation, but their budding romance is imperiled by Satomi's deal with the demon and Tran's tumultuous galactic past.

In a review for Tor, Maya Gittelman called Light from Uncommon Stars "one of the best speculative novels I’ve ever read" and that it "reminds me what genre is capable of.

"[2] In a review for Locus, Caren Gussoff praised the novel's portrayal of women and its use of speculative fiction tropes to explore the meaning of womanhood in the modern day.