Hi there, Nice to meet everyone.
I go by GooseDwarf, I’m a tech enthusiast, who also enjoys video games, tabletop games, and reading SciFi and Fantasy. Like many others, I’m working on leaving Reddit, and after seeing people mention Lemmy, and seeing Beehaw at the top of the recommended, decided to give this community a try.
Terry Pratchett is my go to for fantasy, I absolutely adore Discworld. A series I don’t hear about as much though, is the Dragon Weather trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I highly recommend it!
As far as scifi, I’m mostly in a cyberpunk kick at the moment. I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was quite good. Other than that, I can recommend William Gibson, with the sprawl trilogy that helped define modern cyberpunk.
As far as more traditional scifi, aside from Adam’s, whose work is amazing, I enjoy the Ender’s Game series, but acknowledge that Card was a bit problematic, especially with his later writing having more Mormon beliefs shining through. I also am a fan of Andy Weir’s The Martian and Project Hail Mary. They’re entertaining, but some people don’t like how they perceive his writing to be full of deus ex machina. I enjoy seeing how his characters overcome the problems.
I’ve never heard of Ursula Le Guin, I’ll have to check them out