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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2024-01-04 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] channelpenguin 2024-01-06 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. Clearly I have the wrong impression!

Sigh. The older I get, the more I enjoy (in both books and films), the world-building (usually the start) but find the trials and crises and whathaveyou that heroes go through either boring or unpleasant - maybe reminds me too much of some of the much more minor "adventures" and accidents have had (I did a lot of offshore sailing, and have been seriously injured in a motorbike crash, for example). I like exploration type of adventure, puzzle or problem solving without "disaster movie" trimmings. I guess hard to find even in factual writing!
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[personal profile] poshmerchant 2024-01-06 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you tried Andy Weir's books? The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary are all puzzle and problem solving, though some of the stakes are life and death

I think you'd enjoy The Spare Man, which is a space cruise liner murder mystery from Mary Robinette Koval. She won the 2019 prize for Calculating Stars, but I think The Spare Man is a much lighter read

Another fun sci-fi mystery with relatively low stakes is Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty. High concept, low stakes, fun
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2024-01-06 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Long Way to a Small Angry Planet might work too
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[personal profile] channelpenguin 2024-01-06 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very kindly for the ideas!
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