Hello all, I’m new to this community!

I just finished Murray Leinster’s Pariah Planet. I love how it started out, but some of his writing ticks bothered me too much (he uses “presently” nearly every other page) otherwise I would probably continue with his Med Series. Idk maybe I will anyway…

Does anyone have any recommendations for me? Not looking for just pandemic stories, (and please no zombies) – I enjoy the detective undertones of public health scientists figuring shit out, and some of the political conflicts that arise.

One thing about Pariah Planet that I’ve been really drawn to are stories of scientists in solitude. I really liked the movie io and the podcast series Girl in Space.

I’m also in the middle of Apollyon but waiting for more of the next season to come out so I can binge!

Books available as audiobooks, podcast audiodramas, and movies would all be ideal but lmk whatever you think fits in my very specific subgenre interest

Thank you !!

  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
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    17 days ago

    Looking over my bookshelves and trying to remember what I’ve read so this’ll be kinda eclectic.

    Harry Harrison’s the Jupiter Plague probably hits some of what you’re looking for. It’s not my favorite of everything he wrote, but he wrote so much that that’d be a pretty stiff competition anyway.

    There’s a book called Space Doctor which I obviously bought for the title (by Lee Correy). It’s about setting up the first medical center in space, on a new orbital construction platform, and all the challenges they run into with zero gravity trauma surgery, contamination, radiation, vacuum injury, etc. The high frontier medicine and logistical stuff was very interesting, probably because the author was a medical doctor. Unfortunately that stuff shares the book with a love story which is bad even for older scifi (I was gonna say 60s scifi but it turns out it was published in the 80s).

    Actually it looks like that’s all I’ve got. I’ll edit if I find any others!