do you have any sci-fi book recommendations?
SO BROAD! I polled the choup grat for variety :D
Murderbot, obviously. Quick reads full of defensive humor.
The Broken Earth by NK Jemisin is a fave of mine. Mind the content warnings, but the world she builds and her writing style is PHENOMENAL.
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace is like. What if Ready Player One was good. What if, instead of being an 80s wet dream, it actually examined the implications of a world wide MMO that you live in. What if it actually unpacked the dystopian aspect of it all. What if the supersoldiers were brainwashed babies that should've died.
Wayfarers by Becky Chambers is slow and meandering and character focused. It's like an old slice of life scifi show from the 90s. Think Firefly or Star Trek. You don't have to read them in order, but like Discworld some of them play off of each other.
Monk and Robot by Beck Chambers is similar but their feet are on the ground and each one is like 100 pages so it's a smaller commitment for similar fun. These two are often chategorized as "cosy scifi", but they actually deal with their world problems, it's just the problems that we see are more often internal character problems.
Space Opera by Cat Valente is like. What if Hitchhiker's Guide was good and also queer.
Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie, starting with Ancillary Justice. My favorite was actually Provenance which isn't connected to the main trilogy. What if your spaceship loved you so much it started a civil war between one person.
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee if you want a challenge. I started this two or three times before I got through it all and I ended up enjoying it a lot. I didn't know "strange guy in your head makes decisions for you" was a genre, but here we are.
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine if you like the "annoying guy in your head" genre. This is more a scifi mystery which was nice, and reminded me a lot of Provenance. (or Provenance reminded me of this as I read this first.)
Leech by Hiron Ennes, @bigcats-birds-and-books says it counts as scifi, we both liked it a lot! Won't say much about it, I think it's good to go in not knowing too much :3
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone if you haven't read it and want something short and flowery. The audio of this was very nice!
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling if you have a fear of caves :3 A good blend of scifi and horror. The romance is a little bit fucked up too.
Skyhunter by Marie Lu omg a good YA duology! Monsters! Bird people! Found family! Pain! It was very good.
