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"Planetfall" by Emma Newman might fit your preferences judging by the things you said about books you've read! it's a 4 book series (i think) and mostly deals with the inner psychology of the main character of each book. also has a bunch of engineering in it, mostly hard sci-fi!
I'd reccomend the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor.
First person narrative that fully embraces its main character as an engineering superstar with galactic level influence.
Yeah, I've been told to reread it since apparently I missed some critical stuff my first time through.
Recently, I've been reading the Interdependency series by John Scalzi. It starts with The Collapsing Empire, featuring an unlikely heir to the throne, a time of trouble and strife, and the likely impending doom of all mankind. A lot of the story focuses on the unlikely heir grappling with how to hold things together against the catastrophe that most people don't really believe is coming.
Looks cool! I enjoyed Scalzi's Old Man's War series, will be nice to visit him again.
The Red Mars trilogy has some competence porn characters.
Thanks! I bounced off the Mars trilogy. All the petty human drama and politics just felt way too much like current news (which is probably a compliment to his writing skills, but it just wasn’t what I was looking for at the time). I think I probably need a very relaxed state of mind to be able to dive into it.
Seconded. Great series, logical, minimal unobtainium.
The Fountains of Paradise It's literally an SF love letter to engineering.
Also there are two (or three?) sequels to Rendezvous with Rama.
Greg Bear's Eon/Eternity and The Forge of God/Anvil of Stars are all engineering delight.
2001, 2010, 2051, 3001 are great classics.
Eon is definitely an all time favorite book of mine but Eternity is.... quite a slog
There are no sequels to Rama. I wish there were, but there aren't. Odyssey series is a classic, yeah.
Currently reading and enjoying Eon, so Greg's my next month of reading I guess! Will check out Fountains after that.
There are no sequels to Rama.
There's only six Dune books too ;-)
Allow me to chime in with a science fiction favorite: A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M Miller. It’s a collections of three interrelated novellas set a few thousand years apart… but there are themes and one character present in all three. Compelling characters and lots of humor make this a must read.
Anyone else read it?
It's one of my favourites.
FIAT LUX!
Thanks, I'll put it on my list!
Yep. This is a good one. And if you like Babylon 5, watch Deconstruction of Falling Stars (S04E22) which has a nod to the book.
Interesting. I didn’t get into that show but perhaps I’ll give it another try.
It’s a brilliant book, though I have yet to read the sequel. Can’t recommend it enough.
Isn’t that funny — me too. I’m not sure why I keep putting it off. Perhaps because it was finished by another author… the guy who wrote “They’re Made of Meat.” His name escaped me presently.
Tom Clancy SSN.
Good light reading (historical fiction) for before bed or when you wake up at 3am due to the sound of the Herscithem outside.
Hers what?
Herscithem
From Google, 1st link: https://tinyurl.com/4xtwkcnk
Your tinyurl redirects me to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35465607 ... not very illuminating
When I search for 'Herscithem', the first link is https://herschel.com/
It was a joke, because Google returned only 1 unique result for me, which was this very post.
Herschel.com is only returned if you accept Google's suggested alternative spelling, and is obviously unrelated
Oh, whoosh :(
I don't have an option to accept/reject alternative spellings -- what I see is a message along the lines of "showing results for FUBAR; do you really want to search only for FooBar?"
Yeah, that's Google defaulting to showing you the results for the suggested alternative. If you click yes on FooBar then you're telling Google to stop trying to be smart and show you what you're actually searching for.
Duck duck go does the same thing, sadly.
Nathan Lowell's Trader's Tales From the Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper series is pure competence porn. There's very little action or intrigue, just some guy working his way up from the bottom in interstellar travel and trade via, well, competence. Haha!