re: #31 William Lewis
It can be quite interesting, sometimes, to read books that are SF disguised by fantasy tropes 😉 Lois McMaster Bujold, Steven Brust & John M. Ford (RIP, miss you Mike) for example.
Gotta say that I absolutely adore Bujold, her world building in both the Vorkosigan Saga and the Five Gods books are exemplary…. I didn’t enjoy the Sharing Knife books as much, but I can still admit that they were better than average.