Hello,
I’ve been trying to keep my anxiety and negativity in check and have been looking for short novels that lean toward positive feelings. Something like “Star Trek The Next Generation”: inspiring, encouraging; even though there are difficulties we learn, adapt and make mistakes. But at the end we’ll make it and we’ll get out of it better than we got into it. 😅
Possibly sci-fi or scientific, or adventure (eg the Hornblower saga)
(Sorry couldn’t find a better way to describe it 😅)
Thank you for any suggestion!
- Mastema ( @Mastema@infosec.pub ) 10•8 months ago
I highly recommend anything by Becky Chambers. Her Monk and Robot series is the definition of cozy fiction and the space series is also very low stakes, but engaging. I would also recommend the fantasy books, Legends and Lattés, about an orc who stops adventuring to open a coffee shop, and the prequel, Bookshops and Bonedust, which should actually be read after Legends.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English5•8 months ago
Crazy, I came here to recommend the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers.
Thank you Mastema! That seems exactly what I was looking for.
(Great moniker though! One of my workstations is called “Mastema” 😅)
- Mastema ( @Mastema@infosec.pub ) 2•8 months ago
Great minds, as they say! 😁 Once you read one of those, send me a message and let me know how you like it!
Will certainly do! I’ve already signed up at my local library: I’m on the waiting list for the first installment of the saga.
- Mastema ( @Mastema@infosec.pub ) 1•8 months ago
Ooh! Which one? I’m now excited on your behalf!
As you and others have suggested I’ve signed up for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2245998
Seems a rather popular title: my library has a waitlist of 22 weeks. 😅
I’ve also signed up for Legends and Lattes! That sounds so silly and fun!
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English6•8 months ago
As Mastema said, Becky Chambers. Her Wayfarers series (first book being A Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet) is sublime. I can’t recommend it enough
Thank you, kind poster!
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months ago
You’re most welcome! Let me know what you think!
- dudinax ( @dudinax@programming.dev ) 2•8 months ago
Midshipman’s Hope. It’ s Hornblower in space.
That sounds cool! Thank you so much!
- dudinax ( @dudinax@programming.dev ) 2•8 months ago
Also, Startide Rising by David Brin is “Uplifting”. It’s about the first interstellar starship captained by a dolphin, with a dolphin and human crew.
They make a momentous discovery which puts them on the run from formidable alien fleets with the fate of all Earthlings hanging in the balance.
Oh wow, that’s certainly intriguing. Thank you!
- Arache Louver ( @Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•8 months ago
Maybe the book in which the Dune story was created, the Frank Herbert’s book.
Oh?
- frank ( @frank@sopuli.xyz ) 2•8 months ago
I enjoyed Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldtree. It’s about a retired adventuring orc who decides to open a coffee shop instead of murdering people
I’ve signed up for that at my local library. Thank you! It’s the kind of thing that I may be looking for!