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Inspiring, encouraging or positive short novel (beehaw.org)
submitted 6 months ago by f0h@beehaw.org to c/books@lemmy.ml
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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!

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[-] Mastema@infosec.pub 10 points 6 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@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

Crazy, I came here to recommend the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers.

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you Mastema! That seems exactly what I was looking for.

(Great moniker though! One of my workstations is called “Mastema” 😅)

[-] Mastema@infosec.pub 2 points 6 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!

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

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@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago

Ooh! Which one? I'm now excited on your behalf!

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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@beehaw.org 6 points 6 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

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you, kind poster!

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

You're most welcome! Let me know what you think!

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Midshipman's Hope. It' s Hornblower in space.

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

That sounds cool! Thank you so much!

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 2 points 6 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.

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Oh wow, that’s certainly intriguing. Thank you!

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 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

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

I’ve signed up for that at my local library. Thank you! It’s the kind of thing that I may be looking for!

[-] Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Maybe the book in which the Dune story was created, the Frank Herbert's book.

[-] f0h@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Oh?

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