thebardingreen

Have you tried Mint? It's super stable. It's the least DIY distro ever. You CAN use snaps, but why would anyone want to? I believe there's an image that comes with KDE, but Cinnamon is a great desktop.

I'm surprised, because there's some obvious answers to this I don't see here.

Blindsight A bunch of zombies, led by a vampire fly into deep interstellar space to rendezvous with an alien object that doesn't understand or care about them.

The God Engines by John Scalzi. VERY different from Scalzi's other work. FTL works because of psionic aliens who are horrifically tortured by priests to force them to warp space.

The Outside by Ada Hoffman. AI gods rule the universe and are horrific.

The Sollan Empire books by Christopher Ruocchio have MANY elements of this (and other SciFi tropes). The alien race at war with humans worship dark gods from outside the galaxy who want to destroy reality. They also consider humans to be an edible slave race and you'll encounter the horrific things they do to humans right in book 1, but they really get into that in the most recent book.

Hyperion If the Shrike isn't a form of cosmic horror, IDK what is.

Sphere by Michael Crichton. Ok, technically a submarine base, but there IS a space ship...

Event Horizon is much better if you pretend it's a prequel to WH40K.

Thank you! This is exactly the kind of response I was looking for!

I enjoyed Started Villain a lot. Haven't read Embers of War, but I've looked at it before. Thanks for the recommendation.

You're the second person to suggest this. I didn't know it existed. I fascinated.

I devoured Redwall 30 years ago. I remember they started feeling pretty repetitive and I read one in my early 20s where there was a weasel who was MAYBE good, but then he turned out to be bad and I was like "OK, I'm done." I know he's written a bunch since then, but I feel like as I've aged I've gotten less interested in fantasy and MORE interested in SciFi. Not 100% sure why. I read a fantasy book every year or so.

I've read most things Gibson has written. Interested in things written more recently right now.

I did say "Contemporary." Love Niven.

I have not heard of this! Thank you.

Agreed, it's great. :)

They're OK. I've read several of them (also Battle Tech, Star Trek EU old Star Wars EU, MTG Novels, D&D novels, all a bunch of the same authors from way back when). Haven't tried any of the more recent stuff.