Inspiring, encouraging or positive short novel - eviltoast

Hello,

I’ve been trying to keep my anxiety and negativity in check and have been looking for short novels that lean toward positive feelings. Something like “Star Trek The Next Generation”: inspiring, encouraging; even though there are difficulties we learn, adapt and make mistakes. But at the end we’ll make it and we’ll get out of it better than we got into it. 😅

Possibly sci-fi or scientific, or adventure (eg the Hornblower saga)

(Sorry couldn’t find a better way to describe it 😅)

Thank you for any suggestion!

  • Mastema@infosec.pub
    10·
    8 months ago

    I highly recommend anything by Becky Chambers. Her Monk and Robot series is the definition of cozy fiction and the space series is also very low stakes, but engaging. I would also recommend the fantasy books, Legends and Lattés, about an orc who stops adventuring to open a coffee shop, and the prequel, Bookshops and Bonedust, which should actually be read after Legends.

    • F0h@beehaw.orgOP
      3·
      8 months ago

      Thank you Mastema! That seems exactly what I was looking for.

      (Great moniker though! One of my workstations is called “Mastema” 😅)

      • Mastema@infosec.pub
        2·
        8 months ago

        Great minds, as they say! 😁 Once you read one of those, send me a message and let me know how you like it!

        • F0h@beehaw.orgOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          Will certainly do! I’ve already signed up at my local library: I’m on the waiting list for the first installment of the saga.

  • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    As Mastema said, Becky Chambers. Her Wayfarers series (first book being A Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet) is sublime. I can’t recommend it enough

  • dudinax@programming.dev
    2·
    8 months ago

    Also, Startide Rising by David Brin is “Uplifting”. It’s about the first interstellar starship captained by a dolphin, with a dolphin and human crew.

    They make a momentous discovery which puts them on the run from formidable alien fleets with the fate of all Earthlings hanging in the balance.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    8 months ago

    I enjoyed Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldtree. It’s about a retired adventuring orc who decides to open a coffee shop instead of murdering people

    • F0h@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      I’ve signed up for that at my local library. Thank you! It’s the kind of thing that I may be looking for!