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Project Hail Mary. Great sci-fi story and the narrator really does an outstanding job. No sex that I can recall. Maybe an occasional mild curse word? If so it wasn’t overkill.

Just curious, what are his reasons for not wanting to upgrade?

In the US there’s the saying “you can’t squeeze water from a stone”

The Expanse made other sci-fi seem like fanfic

Now get them to agree on what those changes should be

Belt loops would have been for Cub Scouts. Merit badges are for Boy Scouts. There’s definitely plenty you can do at home for both, but with merit badges you need a merit badge counselor, who may or may not be your leader

Sensei of my domain

Arcane. Hands down 10/10 on practically every possible metric, but the thing that really got me was the way they portray trauma and the subsequent impact on mental health. I work with folks who have experienced trauma and I thought this was one of the best depictions of the aftermath I had ever seen in media.

Also, this is a perfect depiction of a Greek tragedy, in the sense that everything ends in tragedy not despite, but because of everyone’s best intentions. As the story unfolds you understand everyone’s motivations and they all make sense. There’s no perfectly good or bad characters, just a lot of people doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.

That’s why I always go alone…

His Dark Materials

Cries in Gorsuch

Yes, if only there were some kind of systemized method of some sort for approaching scientific questions. Alas…

Here’s a good discussion on why you should vary your news sources along with some charts to show how sources vary and specific examples given. Maybe you can find what you’re looking for in there.

I agree with Parable of the Talents. It continues the story but from a few different perspectives.

Also, I really enjoyed Wild Seed by Butler. It is chronologically the first book in the Patternist series.

If you’re looking for something by a different author with some similar themes but with a more sci-fantasy edge, then the Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. It is the first book in the Broken Earth trilogy.