I need sci-fi (book or novella) comfort food. I’m tempted to do Culture but I juuuust re-did it last year. What else?

@luis_in_brief Scalzi. If you haven't read Scalzi "The Interdependency" trilogy, go for it. Or "Kaiju Preservation Society".

@hub ooh, Kaiju is a good call.

@hub though maybe I’ll go further back and hit Old Man’s War.

@luis_in_brief When I really want comfort food I go back to the Lensman series by EE Doc Smith...takes me right back to my childhood (where it had already been around for a while - I'm not *that* old!)

What I like to recommend to people is the Terra Ignota series by @adapalmer - a great and (mostly) hopeful look forward by somebody who is clearly far smarter than I am...one of the few things I've reread in recent years.

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How many times can I recommended Murderbot? :)

But also if you have read those and enjoyed, her other books are also great.

@luis_in_brief Monk and Robot novellas? They are such comfort.

@corbet @adapalmer ooh, I am due for my third read of Terra Ignota.

@luis_in_brief that too.

@hub @luis_in_brief Starter Villain also good depending if to you "comfort" also has an absence of violence. Also of course Becky Chambers Monk/Robot books

@jessamyn @hub now I’m wondering why Monk and Robot, which I *adore*, doesn’t feel Comfort to me? 🧐

@luis_in_brief I've picked up Three Body Problem, and Eastern Standard Tribe recently :)

@davidthewid I loved Three Body but it was a lot of mental work (and honestly I did not love the sequel). Haven’t read EST in… forever?

@luis_in_brief these are just the cool books I found in my local free library, only recently getting into sci-fi :) what're your favs?

@davidthewid oooooooo

I have a liiiiiist. It is on the Other Site; I will have to find it and port it somewhere more useful. Unless @josh has a copy handy somewhere (since it was his similar question that prompted me to blurt it out).

@josh @luis_in_brief @davidthewid Luis, you might like Jo Walton's Thessaly series if you haven't read it already. Not exactly comfort reading but very readable. (I guess that's its own question - what makes something comfort reading? Readable prose? Humor? Lovable characters? Hopepunk vibes?)

A lot of people recommend Becky Chambers as a sci fi comfort read.

@luis_in_brief If you haven’t read it already, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (The Martian).