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!
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.
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” 😅)
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.
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!
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!
You’re most welcome! Let me know what you think!
Midshipman’s Hope. It’ s Hornblower in space.
That sounds cool! Thank you so much!
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!
Maybe the book in which the Dune story was created, the Frank Herbert’s book.
Oh?
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!