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I have soon finshed all of The Expanse (which I have enjoyed immensely) and last month I finished Peter F Hilton’s Pandoras Star. While I enjoyed the second half of Pandoras Star, they (it’s a trilogy) are such heavy books with rather slow pace. One of my favorite reads last year was Recursion by Blake Crouch - it’s fast paced and just a plain joy to read. The same goes for The Martian and Project Hail Mary.

Given this, do you have any recommendations for what to read next?

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

A couple of standard favorites of mine:

The Fuzzy books by H. Beam Piper. First of three is even public domain:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

These others may be harder to find... Steve Perry is known for his Star Wars and Aliens books, but he also has his own shared universe which is a good read:

The Matador Novels:
The Man Who Never Missed (1985)
Matadora (1986)
The Machiavelli Interface (1986)
The Omega Cage with J. Michael Reaves (1988)
The 97th Step (1989)
The Albino Knife (1991)
Black Steel (1992)
Brother Death (1992)
The Musashi Flex (2006)

Stellar Ranger series:
Stellar Ranger (1994)
Lone Star (1994)

Venture Silk series:
Spindoc (1994)
The Forever Drug (1995)

Standalones:
Trinity Vector (1996)
The Digital Effect (1997)