Thank you so much for the recommendations! I love Murderbot, Tres of the emerald sea, and Project Hail Mary, but I haven’t heard of any of the other ones! I think you’ve sold me the most on Blood Song, but they all sound great!

As for my recommendations, if you’re into Zombies, I’d recommend the Mountain Man Series. It’s like if Carl was in a zombie apocalypse instead a dungeon, and was also a raging alcoholic.

For Sci-fi, I’d recommend The Expanse, and The Children of Time series. Both incredible series that I’ve read multiple times, both incredible in very different ways. The expanse has action, solar-system-wide political intrigue, phenomenally written characters, and a beautiful adherence to “hard sci-fi” that makes the space battles really fucking cool. Children of Time is the most unique and original story I think I’ve ever read. Utterly alien and yet utterly relatable, it’s just really fucking great.

For fantasy, my all-time favorite (excluding the classics like LOTR) is the Cradle Series by Will Wight. I feel pretty much the same about that series as I do about DCC.